Definition of "laterites" [laterites]

• Plural form of laterite. (noun)

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• "Even the barren, arid, and windswept eastern slopes glowed bright with the volcanic muds locally called laterites, and the foliated beds of saibros and maçapés, decomposed tufas oxidised red and yellow."
• "Soils are predominantly laterites in various stages of formation depending on the age of the volcanic parent material."
• "These often form dissected plateaus capped by laterites, with extensive outcrops in the southeast of the ecoregion near its junction with the Einasleigh Upland Savannas and Mitchell Grass Downs."