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Duricrust is a hard
layer on or near the
surface of soil.
Duricrusts can
range in
thickness from a few
millimeters or
centimeters to
several meters. It...
- of tablelands. Flat-lying
duricrusts and
volcanic rocks also form the
caprock of
various tablelands. In case of
duricrusts, e.g.
laterite or silcrete...
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Caliche is also
known as
calcrete or
kankar (in India). It
belongs to the
duricrusts. The term
caliche is
borrowed from
Spanish and is
originally from the...
- used to
illustrate the
influence groundwater has on the
formations of
duricrusts like gypcrust: per
ascensum and per descensum. The per
ascensum model...
- by how
extensive and / or
intractable the
hardpan is.
Caliche Claypan Duricrust Duripan Fragipan Forestiere Underground Gardens "Resounding Soils" (Web)...
- rock,
usually conglomerate or breccia, that has been
cemented into a
duricrust by iron oxides. The iron
oxide cements are
derived from the oxidation...
- crustacean, crustaceous, crustal, crustation, crustific, crustose, custard,
duricrust, encrust, encrustation, incrust,
incrustation crux cruc-
cross crucial...
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adapted to the soils.
Often thick, magnesite-calcrete caprock,
laterite and
duricrust forms over
ultramafic rocks in
tropical and
subtropical environments....
- as
sandstone and limestone;
dissected lava flows; or a
deeply eroded duricrust.
Unlike plateau,
whose usage does not
imply horizontal layers of bedrock...
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called "
duricrust." The
crust contained hydrated sulfate/silica
materials in the Amazonian-age
terrain of the
landing site. The
duricrust was produced...
