Which soil horizon develops reduced fertility when intense equatorial rainfall raises the leaching limit?

💡 Explanation

Laterite horizons form via intense weathering; the mechanism is *leaching* which washes away silica and bases, because only iron and aluminum oxides concretize, therefore fertility decreases in laterites rather than being enriched like oxide or calcic horizons under drier conditions.

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