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Definitions of laterite in various dictionaries:
noun - a red soil produced by rock decay
A red residual soil in humid tropical and subtropical regions that is leached of soluble minerals, aluminum hydroxides, and silica but still contains concentrations of iron oxides and iron hydroxides.
noun - a type of soil
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| Jun 13 2012 The Telegraph - Toughie |
| Apr 17 2009 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Aug 16 2001 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Jan 1 2000 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
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| A red residual soil formed by the leaching of silica and by enrichment with aluminum and iron oxides, especially in humid climates. |
| a red soil produced by rock decay contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides |
| a type of reddish clay soil containing iron and aluminium, found especially in tropical areas |
| A reddish clayey material, hard when dry, forming a topsoil in some tropical or subtropical regions and sometimes used for building. |
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Laterite is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium, and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by intensive and prolonged weathering of the underlying parent rock. Tropical weathering (laterization) is a prolonged process of chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils. The majority of the land area containing laterites is between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. * Laterite has commonly been referred to as a soil type as well as being a rock type. This and further variation in the modes of conceptualizing about laterite (e.g. also as a complete weathering profile or theory about weathering) has led to calls for the term to be abandoned altogether. At least a few researchers specializing in regolith development have considered that hopeless confusion has evolved arou |