laterisation

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of laterization.

   “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.”