laterite
See also: latérite
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlatəɹʌɪt/
Noun
laterite (plural laterites)
- 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.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 38:
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Translations
red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil
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