Tepetate

Tepetate (Spanish tepetate; Nahuatl tepetlatl) is a Mexican term for a kind of brittle volcanic rock. Tepetate can be converted into arable land through pulverization.

References

Williams, Barbara J. (1972). "Tepetate in the Valley of Mexico". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 62 (4): 618–626. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1972.tb00890.x. Invalid |name-list-format=scap (help)

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