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Laterite in Sơn Tây, Hanoi, Vietnam. Francis Buchanan-Hamilton first described and named a laterite formation in southern India in 1807. [4]: 65 He named it laterite from the Latin word later, which means a brick; this highly compacted and cemented soil can easily be cut into brick-shaped blocks for building.
Red laterite soils in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala are more suitable for crops like cashew nut. The laterite soil develops in areas with high temperature and heavy rainfall. This is the result of intense leaching due to heavy rain. The name "Laterite" is derived from the Latin word "later" which means a brick. Its red colour is due to ...
Angadippuram Laterite is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument [1] [2] [3] in Angadippuram town in Malappuram district in the southern Indian state of Kerala, India.The special significance of Angadippuram to laterites is that it was here that Dr. Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, a professional surgeon, gave the first account of this rock type, in his report of 1807, as "indurated clay", ideally ...
The aluminium hydroxide in the lateritic bauxite deposits is almost exclusively gibbsite. In the case of Jamaica, recent analysis of the soils showed elevated levels of cadmium, suggesting that the bauxite originates from Miocene volcanic ash deposits from episodes of significant volcanism in Central America. [7]
Most of this basin comprises rolling and undulating country, except for the western border, which is formed by an unbroken line of the Western Ghats. The important soil types found in the basin are black soils, red soils, laterite and lateritic soils, alluvium, mixed soils, red and black soils, and saline and alkaline soils.
Khoai in Bengali refers to a geological formation specifically in Birbhum, Bardhaman, and Bankura districts of West Bengal, India and some parts of Jharkhand, India that is made up of laterite soil rich in iron oxide, often in the shapes of tiny hills. This canyon like terrain is caused by wind and water erosion on red laterite soil. [1]
India is the world's most populated country, having surpassed China in 2023. [26] [27] Although population growth in India has slowed, the country's population is expected to grow and hit a peak of 1.7 billion people by 2064. [27] India's replacement level fertility rate is 2, as of 2023. [28]
Thus, typically, nickel laterite ore deposits contain many billions of dollars of in-situ value of contained metal. [citation needed] Ore deposits of this type are restricted to the weathering mantle developed above ultramafic rocks. [4] As such they tend to be tabular, flat and really large, covering many square kilometres of the Earth's surface.