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Caliche and Haxtun will are always tough, and Longmont Christian is improved.
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Its too large to use a retaining wall and occasionally some of the caliche slides down.
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My foot hurt after walking the gray stallion around the packed caliche alleyways for an hour.
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Homeowners can find caliche in Costa Mesa and parts of Irvine.
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However, caliche deposits indicate at least periodic droughts.
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Caliche got a 245-yard rushing performance from Aaron Stieb in its 34-22 quarterfinal victory over Elbert.
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The football field has a ring of caliche and grass around it.
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Caliche advances to today's semifinals against Flagler.
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Caliche has its first state title since winning back-to-back championships in Class 2A in 1999 and 2000.
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- Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
- Nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru
- Caliche is a sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate. This calcium carbonate cements together other materials, including gravel, sand, clay, and silt. It is found in aridisol and mollisol soil orders. ...
- A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer; A layer of hard clay subsoil; hardpan
- A soil condition found in some areas of the arid Southwest, or as the result of synthetic fertilizers, caliche is a deposit of calcium carbonate (lime) beneath the soil surface. This condition is more commonly called 'hardpan' and creates an impervious layer in lower levels of soil.
- An alkaline salt deposit (crust) created by salinisation.
- One or more layers of calcium carbonate deposited as water holding the carbonates in suspension evaporates. This is similar to hard water deposits on drying dishes.
- A cement-like layer of deposited calcium carbonate found usually in subsoils in desert climates.
- A white soil horizon consisting of calcium carbonate, typical of arid and semi-arid areas. Brief heavy rains dissolve calcium carbonate in the upper layers of soil and transport it downward; the rainwater then evaporates rapidly, leaving the calcium carbonate to form a new, solid layer of soil.
