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- Laterite abstract "Laterite is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium, and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. 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. The majority of the land area containing laterites is between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.Laterite has commonly been referred to as a soil type as well as being a rock type. This and further variation in the modes of conceptualizing about laterite (e.g. also as a complete weathering profile or theory about weathering) has led to calls for the term to be abandoned altogether. At least a few researchers specializing in regolith development have considered that hopeless confusion has evolved around the name. There is no likelihood, however, that the name will ever be abandoned; for material that looks highly similar to the Indian laterite occurs abundantly worldwide, and it is reasonable to call such material laterite.Historically, laterite was cut into brick-like shapes and used in monument-building. After 1000 CE, construction at Angkor Wat and other southeast Asian sites changed to rectangular temple enclosures made of laterite, brick and stone. Since the mid-1970s, some trial sections of bituminous-surfaced, low-volume roads have used laterite in place of stone as a base course. Thick laterite layers are porous and slightly permeable, so the layers can function as aquifers in rural areas. Locally available laterites have been used in an acid solution, followed by precipitation to remove phosphorus and heavy metals at sewage-treatment facilities.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.".
- Laterite thumbnail Laterite_monument._C_002.jpg?width=300.
- Laterite wikiPageID "26855026".
- Laterite wikiPageLength "30399".
- Laterite wikiPageOutDegree "155".
- Laterite wikiPageRevisionID "703364459".
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Alpine_orogeny.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Aluminium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Aluminium_oxide.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Amphibole.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Anatase.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Angkor_Wat.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Aquifer.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Asphalt.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Augite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Shield.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Basalt.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Basement_(geology).
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Bauxite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Boehmite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Cadmium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Calcite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Calcium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Capillary_action.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aluminium_minerals.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Building_materials.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ore_deposits.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pedology.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Regolith.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sedimentology.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Category:Weathering.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Cation-exchange_capacity.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Cementation_(geology).
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Chalcedony.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Chromium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Clay.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Clay_minerals.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Climate.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Cobalt.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Continental_collision.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Crystal_structure.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Diaspore.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Dolomite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Dry_season.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Feldspar.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Buchanan-Hamilton.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink French_colonial_empire.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Gabbro.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Gibbsite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Gneiss.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Goethite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Granite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Halloysite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Hematite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Hydroxide.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Igneous_rock.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink International_Crops_Research_Institute_for_the_Semi-Arid_Tropics.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Ion.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Iron.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Iron_oxide.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Island_arc.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Kaolinite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Khmer_Empire.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Leachate.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Leaching_(pedology).
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Lead.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Limestone.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Madhya_Pradesh.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Mafic.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Magnesite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Magnesium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Manganese.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Manganese_oxide.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Masonry.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Metamorphic_rock.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Migmatite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Mineral.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Monsoon.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Nickel.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Nickel_mining_in_New_Caledonia.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Niger.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Ireland.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Olivine.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Ore.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Oxide.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Oxisol.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink PH.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Parent_rock.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Peridotite.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Plagioclase.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Plateau.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Potassium.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Precambrian.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Pyroxene.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Quartz.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Quaternary.
- Laterite wikiPageWikiLink Sahel.