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Give 5 main features of laterite soil?

Answer 1

Laterites are soil types rich in iron and aluminium, formed in hot and wet tropical areas.Nearly all laterites are rusty-red because of iron oxides.They develop by intensive and long-lasting 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.

Thick laterite layers are porous and slightly permeable, so the layers can function as aquifers in rural areas.

Laterites are a source of aluminium ore; the ore exists largely in clay minerals and the hydroxides, gibbsite, boehmite, and diaspore, which resembles the composition of bauxite. In Northern Ireland they once provided a major source of iron and aluminium ores. Laterite ores also were the early major source of nickel.

Answer 2

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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 regions. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by intensive and long-lasting weathering and underlying parent rock.

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