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What is a laterite profile?
The laterite profile consists of ferricrete overlying saprolite. Examples from our field observations and from the literature demonstrate that in many, if not all, cases ferricrete consists of detrital material younger than the underlying weathering zone(s) from which it is separated by an unconformity.
What is the structure of laterite soil?
Laterite soil is rich in aluminum and iron, formed in wet and hot tropical areas. Almost all laterites are rusty red due to the presence of iron oxides. It is prepared by the long-lasting and intensive weathering of the parent rock.
What does laterite look like?
Laterite is frequently pisolitic (pealike). Exposed surfaces are blackish-brown to reddish and commonly have a slaggy, or scoriaceous, lavalike appearance. Commonly lighter in colour (red, yellow, and brown) where freshly broken, it is generally soft when freshly quarried but hardens on exposure.
What is the Colour of laterite soil?
reddish to yellow
Laterite soil is reddish to yellow in color with a lower content of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, lime, and magnesia with 90–100% of iron, aluminum, titanium, and manganese oxides.
What is the soil texture of laterite soil?
The Laterite soils in India are not very fertile and are can be only used with sufficient manure and fertilizers dosage. They are coarse in texture and poor in nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash and urea. These soils are red in colour as it is mixed with iron oxides.
What is the colour of laterite soil?
What is the local name of laterite soil?
Answer. the other name of laterite soil is red laterite soil.
What are the properties of laterite?
“laterite is a highly weathered material rich in secondary oxides of iron, aluminium or both. It is nearly void of bases and primary silicates but it may contain large amounts of quartz and kaolinite. It is either hard, or capable of hardening on exposure to wetting and drying.”