Question
Download Solution PDFLaterite soil is rich in:
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Iron Oxide.
Key Points
- Laterite is a Latin word that means "Later".
- Francis Hamilton (a Scottish Physician) first described and named a laterite formation in Southern India in 1807.
- Laterite is both soil and a rock type and rich in Iron & Aluminium.
- Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content.
- They evolve by intense and sustained weathering of the underlying parent rock.
- Laterite soils have a high content of clay, which ensures that they have a greater ability to exchange cations and retain water than sandy soils, and can thus be used as a hard material like a brick.
- It is formed in hot & wet tropical areas & majorly found between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- Angkor wat in Cambodia is an example for use of laterite soil as a construction material.
Example of construction with Laterite in Angkor, Cambodia
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