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barnwood
aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood. -
c horizon
the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes -
latosol
a reddish lateritic soil of the tropics, deeply weathered and infertile, characterized by hydroxides of iron and aluminum. -
lithosol
a group of shallow soils lacking well-defined horizons, especially an entisol consisting of partially weathered rock fragments, usually on steep slopes. -
oxisol
a thick, weathered soil of the humid tropics, largely depleted in the minerals that promote fertility, and characteristic of the Amazon and Congo basins. -
thunder egg
a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt.