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Meaning of laterisation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Rain forest soils arise rather from the co-existence of the two extreme processes of soil formation in humid regions—podsolisation and laterisation, leaching of sesquioxides and silica respectively,–but laterisation greatly predominates.”
“Laterisation involves the deposition of a hard layer of metallic oxides (called latarite) in the A horizon.”

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C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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