caliche 的定义
Geology.
- a surface deposit consisting of sand or clay impregnated with crystalline salts such as sodium nitrate or sodium chloride.
- a zone of calcium carbonate or other carbonates in soils of semiarid regions.
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- Magnificent language, a luminous, fevered dream of obsessive caliche-hued desert love.
- All this is the result of digging for caliche, and blasting it out of the sandy bed in which it has lain God only knows how long.
- Hence, roads are referred to as clay, gumbo, sandy or caliche roads as local custom may elect.
- The caliche varies in thickness from a few inches to 10 or 12 feet, and rests on a soft stratum of earth called cova.
- The caliche, or raw nitrate of soda, is not equally distributed over the pampas.
- The caliche is then separated by means of picks from the overlying costra and carried to the refinery.