Freetown lies upon a gentle declivity, a slope of lateriteand diluvium washed down from the higher levels.
The colours of the houses are various; plain white is rare, and the prevailing tints are the light-brick of the fresh laterite and the dark rusty ochre of the old.
Its condition is exactly what it was two decads ago--a chapel-like shell of dingy, mouldy laterite with six lancet-windows and metal pillars.
As two of the lavas of the Giant's Causeway are parted by a bed of lignite, it is not improbable that the layers of laterite seen in the Antrim cliffs resulted from atmospheric decomposition.
Laterite is a red or brick-like rock composed of silicate of alumina and oxide of iron.
This remark was lost on Mrs. Rouat, owing to the jingling of the bandy on the laterite road, and conversation flagged amid the distractions of the surroundings.
In dry soils such as laterite soils, it is a very small plant not exceeding 9 or 10 inches across its spread.
This grass grows in open somewhat dry loamy and laterite soils in the East Coast districts.
The river is undoubtedly cutting into the soft laterite bank here, and in a few years the old site will go down with a run.
Brick andlaterite blocks are the material used, the former in some cases, as in the wall and the pillars of the cloister, being stuccoed.
One may roughly say that the salt efflorescence occupies the low grounds, between the slightly higherlaterite jungle ridges, which are yet just higher than the surface of the nongs.
It contains a large ruined tank with laterite steps, and a number of tombs of wealthy Jain merchants.
Several of them are elaborate buildings with massive stone roofs, and are surrounded by laterite enclosures.
The tree is confined to the laterite plateaux in the Coondapur taluk, situated as a rule within 15 miles of the sea, and gradually dies out as we proceed southwards, until near Coondapur itself the tree will hardly grow.
The grave is then covered with laterite stones, over which each of the mourners throws a handful of earth, reciting the Kalima and passages from the Koran.
Laterite stones are placed at the head and foot of the grave, and some mailanji (henna: Lawsonia alba) is planted at the side.
The conditions under which laterite are formed include, first, a high seasonal temperature, for it occurs only in tropical districts and in plains or mountains up to about 5000 ft.
On steep slopes laterite also may creep or slip when soaked with rain, and if exposed in sections on roadsides or river banks has a bedded appearance, the stratification being parallel to the surface of the ground.
On pure limestones such as coral rocks and on quartzites laterite deposits do not originate except where the material has been transported.
We may also point out the essential chemical similarity between laterite and the seams of bauxite which occur, for example, in the north of Ireland as reddish clays between flows of Tertiary basalt.
The restricted distribution of laterite deposits might then be due to the inhibiting effect of low temperatures on the reproduction of these organisms.
Indies) similar types of laterite have been called "puzzuolana" and are also used as mortar and cement.
The great abundance of alumina in some varieties of laterite is a consequence of the removal of the fine particles of gibbsite, &c.
Laterite may be roughly divided into two kinds, high-level and low-level laterites.
Figure 5 is a drift-shaped implement from the laterite beds of Madras, of exactly the same form as those found in England.
In it rice is the chief article produced, and for its cultivation the disintegrated laterite (cabook), when thoroughly irrigated, is sufficiently adapted.
The general formation is granitic, overlaid by sandstone, laterite or clay ironstone, and to the north by limestone.
The relation between laterite and lithomarge is discussed in p.
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