Caliche Wikipedia
Caliche (/ k ə ˈ l iː tʃ iː /) 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 Kalari Desert, in the High Plains of the western USA, in the Sonoran ...