Vidyalelo
Agriculture · Q70

Soil Science

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 70

Q70

Laterization is a process of accumulation in soil

A.
Iron and aluminium oxides
Answer
B.
Silica
C.
CaCO3
D.
CuSO4

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Lateralization is the process of the accumulation of iron and aluminium oxides in the soil.
It is also termed tropical weathering and is a prolonged process of chemical weathering that produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry, and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils.
Typical laterite is porous and claylike. It contains the iron oxides minerals goethite, HFeO2; lepidocrocite, FeO(OH); and hematite, Fe2O3. It also contains titanium oxides and hydrated oxides of aluminum, the most common and abundant of which is gibbsite, Al2O3 · 3H2O.