Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by laterite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
laterite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This extreme type of weathering is sometimes called lateritic alteration
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- the four soil samples may be classified as lateritic or non-lateritic soils according to the value of the following ratio:
Chapter 5 1987
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The second, the garnierite or "lateritic" type of nickel ores, is somewhat more common and is represented by the deposits of New
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Particularly in depressions, these develop a lateritic pan on which woody vegetation is sparse or absent.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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The Park consists of a lateritic peneplain, with rock outcrops of quartz, schists and gneisses.
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The reddish layers are probably ancient Oxisols or lateritic soils formed under subtropical conditions.
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Most of the ecoregion has typical lateritic soils with reddish clay, although the soils are younger and less leached in some areas, especially close to the base of the Andes and in the floodplains of the major rivers.
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The reddish layers are probably ancient Oxisols or lateritic soils formed under subtropical conditions.
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The soils are either highly weathered lateritic clays (oxisols or ultisols) or very young inceptisols.
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In the hilly areas with lateritic soils (the residual product of rock decay), the vegetation is characterized by Xylia xylocarpa, Pterocarpus marsupium, Anogeissus latifolia, Grewia tiliaefolia, Terminalia tomentosa, and Terminalia bellirica.
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