Name originally given to the brick‐red, clay‐rich alteration product of weathered basaltic rocks in Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. Now used to mean the ferric iron and clay‐rich material occurring as mottles in soil, and that irreversibly hardens to a hardpan (petroplinthite) on repeated cycles of wetting and drying.
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(2008). Plinthite. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_446
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