caliche in English
noun
1
a mineral deposit of gravel, sand, and nitrates, found especially in dry areas of South America.
The urgent trade shifted surprisingly to Chilean deserts nearby, where deposits of caliche , a crude mineral conglomerate of salts, including nitrates, had been laid down during the late Tertiary and Quaternary eras.
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1. It contains calcareous matter; the sandy soil grades down to a thick Arenaceous "caliche" which is a layer of sand cemented into a limestone by interstitial deposition of calcium carbonate.