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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...
- 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...
- as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock...
- crustacean, crustaceous, crustal, crustation, crustific, crustose, custard, duricrust, encrust, encrustation, incrust, incrustation crux cruc- cross crucial...
- profiles. Such are more generally referred to as calcrete, hardpan or duricrust. Caliche (mineral) Recent kankar sheet on Hookina Floodplain, South Australia...
- rock, usually conglomerate or breccia, that has been cemented into a duricrust by iron oxides. The iron oxide cements are derived from the oxidation...
- ash and lava flows that are interbedded with unconsolidated material duricrust, formed by cementation of soils, saprolith and transported material like...
- Free State, South Africa An inselberg in the rainforest of Suriname A duricrust inselberg near Dori, Burkina Faso Uluru, an 863-metre (2,831 ft) sandstone...