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The scientists changed their minds when they found that it was not just humans who have laterisation.

Language is controlled by the left side of the brain, so they thought there was a connection between language and laterisation.

Laterisation is caused because one side of the brain is stronger (more dominant) than the other.

The scientific name for handedness is laterisation.

Laterisation is not only found in humans: it is found in many kinds of animals.

Once laterization sets in, it will take centuries for trees to grow on that land.

The rate of laterization would have decreased with the abrupt cooling of the earth.

The area is so sensitive that to remove the forest cover will lead to a laterization process, converting the land into rocky mountains.

Soils formed by laterization tend to be highly weathered with high iron and aluminium oxide content.

A period of active laterization extended from about the mid-Tertiary to the mid-Quaternary periods (35 to 1.5 million years ago).

Laterization is a soil forming process that occurs in warm and moist climates under broadleaf evergreen forests.

In view of these conditions, the laterization process, which results in formation of laterites, is called the "Tropical disease of rocks".

During the 1930s, soil formation was explained in terms of loosely conceived processes, such as "podzolization," "laterization," and "calcification."

The concentration of iron and aluminium oxides by the laterization process gives the oxisols a bright red colour and sometimes produces mineral deposits such as bauxite.

Some of the oldest and most highly deformed ultramafic rocks which underwent laterization are found in the complex Precambrian shields in Brazil and Australia.

Tropical weathering (laterization) is a prolonged process of chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils.