red soil defination
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Red soil is a type of soil that develops in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an illuvial (see illuviation) red layer. Red soils generally derived from crystalline rock
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Red soils are formed by the weathering of ancient or old metamorphic as well as crystalline rocks. They are formed from existing acidic Gneisses and Granites.
They have red colour because they have very high iron content. The colour may vary or change from red to brown, or yellow and even chocolate. They lack nitrogen, humus, magnesia, phosphate and lastly lime. They are enriched by potash and become fertile with use if irrigation and fertilization.