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Definition of Laterites
1. laterite [n] - See also: laterite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laterites
Literary usage of Laterites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"OCCURRENCE AND FORMATION OF laterites IN GENERAL The two most stable constituents
under conditions of surface weathering are alumina and ferric iron. ..."
2. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"l laterites occur rather widely through the tropical and semi-tropical ...
laterites have been described as resulting from alterations in situ of various ..."
3. The World's Gold, Its Geology, Extraction, and Political Economy by Louis Launay (1908)
"Deposits of secondary concentration—Chemically altered ores—Lodes of native
gold—Red earths and laterites. The forms of auriferous deposits which remain to ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"Culver,32 who has made a close study of laterites, follows Clarke in his ...
As defined above, laterites differ from true clays in the absence of the ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"the pioneer in the investigation of the nature of Indian laterites, though their
aluminous character had years before been suggested by Mallet.1 Various ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1906)
"Some of the laterites have proved to be more than appreciably auriferous. ...
Elsewhere in the State the laterites support but a scanty vegetation. ..."
7. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1906)
"Some of the laterites have proved to be more than appreciably auriferous. ...
Elsewhere in the State the laterites support but a scanty vegetation. ..."
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