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high temperatures and heavy rainfall alternating with dry periods, in a process called laterization. Such prolonged chemical weathering produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils. Aside from this variety, laterite has commonly been considered a rock type as well as a soil type. These facts, and further ways of conceiving the nature of laterite (e.g. as a complete weathering profile or even a theory about weathering), have led to calls for the

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