caliche

Examples

• All

• Mel halted a little way from the fence, hands on his chubby hips, clouds of caliche dust settling on his Keds.

  Fiction book (2001)

• During the drought, the sun baked the caliche, creating a hard surface across the landscape.

• But they changed their minds when a Roman head engraved in metal was found near the site of the cross, also covered with caliche.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The paved road turned into caliche shell marked with puddles.

  Fiction book (1999)

• They also shape the islands' famous "ghost forests" of caliche.

  Academic text (2007)

• Eva scrambled after him, puffs of dust kicked up from soft caliche.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The bus swerved to the shoulder at another crossroads of a rutted caliche way intersecting at perfect right angles with the two-lane highway, a few adobe houses.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The caliche-like layer retards the flow of freshwater into the sea and impounds as much as one-half of the aquifer (Perry and others 1989).

  Academic text (1993)

• The house sat on a small loamed knoll, so from one of the back upstairs bedrooms, I could see over the lower rooftops of other new homes to some gentle hills, all bottle-green cedar and patches of blindingly white caliche.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The ground was covered in a layer of caliche, making it hard to dig.

Synonyms

H

hardpan

vscaliche

• Specialized

1 9.4

A hard layer under the soil that stops roots and water

is always encrusted with calcium carbonate rather than only sometimes cemented

Compounds

C

caliche-topped

• Specialized

9.9

Having a hard crust of soil that forms in dry places

Surface Forms

Etymology