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Laterite - What does it mean?

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laterite

English

(wikipedia laterite)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 38:
    • Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite .

    Synonyms

    * murram

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