laterisation

English

Noun

laterisation (countable and uncountable, plural laterisations)

  1. Alternative form of laterization
    • 1933, Technical Communication - Volumes 26-35, page 23:
      Rain forest soils arise rather from the co-existence of the two extreme processes of soil formation in humid regions—podsolisation and laterisation, leaching of sesquioxides and silica respectively,–but laterisation greatly predominates.
    • 2001, Chris C. Park, The Environment: Principles and Applications, →ISBN, page 602:
      Laterisation involves the deposition of a hard layer of metallic oxides (called latarite) in the A horizon.

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