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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- sulfate/silica
materials were
found in bright-toned rocks. The
minerals formed a "
duricrust." It was made
either by
groundwater rising or
subsurface ice melting....
