caliche

How To Use caliche In A Sentence

• The kinds of material that can be dated are also slightly different, and include coral, mollusc shells, marl, bone, teeth, caliche and calcretes, peat, wood, and detrital sediment.
• The urgent trade shifted surprisingly to Chilean deserts nearby, where deposits of caliche, a crude mineral conglomerate of salts, including nitrates, had been laid down during the late Tertiary and Quaternary eras.
• The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime. WN.com - Business News
• The early diagenetic precipitation of hematite and calcite took place during subaerial exposure and are the results of caliche and palaeosol formation.
• It contains calcareous matter; the sandy soil grades down to a thick arenaceous "caliche" which is a layer of sand cemented into a limestone by interstitial deposition of calcium carbonate. Western Gulf coastal grasslands
• The formations consist of fine - to medium-grained fluvial sandstones, siltstones and overbank mudstones with abundant caliche soil formation, fossil leaves and logs.
• There is also a thick layer of hard clay, known as caliche, that allows the heavy planes to be stored on the desert without a concrete pad or steel for parking. The MotorSportsNews.Net(work)
• The unit contains abundant evidence of subaerial exposure, including caliche crusts, desiccation cracks and vadose cements.
• The soil here was typical of a sagebrush flat: loose, light, and with enough fine caliche particles to form a crust. TALKING GOD
• Thus, the suite of sulfates found in the oxide zone of the Chuquicamata copper deposit and the nitrates and iodates found in the caliche deposits of northern Chile owe their existence to the extreme aridness of the great Atacama Desert.