laterisation

Alternative form of laterization.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of laterization.
    • 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...
    • Laterisation involves the deposition of a hard layer of metallic oxides (called latarite) in the A horizon. - 2001, Chris C. Park, The Environment: Principles and Applications, →ISBN, page 602:

Forms

laterisations