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THE suggestion has been made that the vesicular form of lateritic ironstone owes its characteristic sponge-like structure to termite action, presumably to burrowing by these insects before the material hardened1.
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GRIFFITH, G. Vesicular Laterite. Nature 171, 530 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171530a0
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