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red earth

noun

  1. a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Edita Mwangi, who harvests coffee cherries on the red earth hillside overlooking the processing plant, confirms this.

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In the background, a hillside can be seen partially collapsed and a large patch of red earth has been exposed.

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To locate the tunnel, forces repeated an Israeli tactic used elsewhere in the strip, overturning mounds of red earth to produce a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance.

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From behind me, over the din of the propeller, Deborah Fleming, a community historian and my host on Tinian, beckoned me to look left: In the middle of jungle, tractors and bright red earth emerged violently from Tinian’s emerald green.

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But after the first, the others were easier to pick out, gleaming dirty white against the red earth and run through with a honeycomb texture.

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