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Soil formed by intensive leaching is _____.
  1. Alluvial soil
  2. Red soil
  3. Desert soil
  4. Laterite soil

A
Desert soil
B
Alluvial soil
C
Laterite soil
D
Red soil
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The Laterite Soil is the type of soil formed from intense leaching in areas of high rainfall , moisture and high temperature. The soil formed by the process of intense leaching is laterite soil.

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1. Alluvial Soils: formed by the deposition of sediments by rivers.

2. Black Soils: derived from weathering of ancient metamorphic rocks of Deccan Plateau

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