digging laterite bricks india - Jack Higgins
Francis BuchananHamilton first described and named a laterite formation in southern India in 1807.: 65 He named it laterite from the Latin word later, which means a brick; this highly compacted and cemented soil can easily be cut into brickshaped blocks for building.: 65 The word laterite has been used for variably cemented, sesquioxiderich soil horizons.