Glossary · term
Laterite
Mineralogy
- Aliases
- laterites, lateritic
- Domain
- Mineralogy
Definition
The deep, iron- and aluminium-rich soil left when tropical rain leaches everything else out of rock. Bauxite is an aluminium laterite; nickel laterites are half the world's nickel.
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