Hi NW and all, well, Wikipedia has a description hope it...

Hi NW and all, well, Wikipedia has a description hope it helps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite

"Laterites are soil types rich in IRON and ALUMINIUM, formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are rusty-red because of iron oxides. They develop by intensive and long-lasting weathering of the underlying parent rock. Tropical weathering (laterization) is a prolonged process of mechanical and chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils. Laterites cover about one-third of the Earth's continental land area, with the majority of that in the land areas between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn."


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