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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.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The typical laterites carry more clay and bauxite than the Cuban iron ores, but this is due merely to the fact that the original rocks commonly carry more materials which weather to clay.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
The red layers called "ochre beds," dividing the lavas of the Giant's Causeway, are laterites.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
In fact the Cuban iron ores are themselves, broadly speaking, laterites.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
The geological formation is Devonian and granitic, with laterites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
