Sentence examples for illuviation from inspiring English sources

Red soil, Any of a group of soils that develop in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an illuvial (see illuviation) red layer.

The solid particles lost through leaching are deposited in the B horizon, which then can be regarded as a zone of illuviation (from Latin il, "in," and lavere).

Illuviation, Accumulation of dissolved or suspended soil materials in one area or layer as a result of leaching (percolation) from another.