Caliche
id:
caliche-168-15589818
title:
Caliche
text:
Caliche is a sedimentary rock, a hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt. It occurs worldwide, in aridisol and mollisol soil orders—generally in arid or semiarid regions, including in central and western Australia, in the Kalahari Desert, in the High Plains of the western United States, in the Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Mojave Desert of North America, and in eastern Saudi Arabia at Al-Hasa. Caliche is also known as c
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Calcium carbonate based concretion of sediment
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliche
date created:
2005-04-27T00:39:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T06:20:35Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/San-miguel-island-caliche.jpg","width":800,"height":593}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16