📚 noun • entry_id 59573
tepetate
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cangagua • duripan • hardpán • moromoro • talpetate • tepetate
A soil type found in volcanic regions, known for hardness, poor drainage, and poor fertility.
Alternating dry and wet periods may favour crystallisation of amorphous aluminium silicates to phyllosilicate clays, so that many tepetates have clay coatings that are due to recry…
Where erosion has reduced the soil layer to less than planting depth or to exposed tepetate, farmers may break up and pulverize the tepetate with plows, picks, crowbars, sledgehamm…
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