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...

rock, usually conglomerate or breccia, that has been cemented into a duricrust by iron oxides. The iron oxide cements are derived from the oxidation...

as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock...

consisting of around 95% gypsum (calcium sulfate). Gypcrust is an arid zone duricrust. It can also occur in a semiarid climate in a basin with internal drainage...

Silcrete is an indurated (resists crumbling or powdering) soil duricrust formed when surface soil, sand, and gravel are cemented by dissolved silica....

the Florida Geological Survey, who point to the buildup of a calcite "duricrust" on the edge of the cut face. Though this is an extremely imprecise way...

by how extensive and / or intractable the hardpan is. Caliche Claypan Duricrust Duripan Fragipan Forestiere Underground Gardens "Resounding Soils" (Web)...

adapted to the soils. Often thick, magnesite-calcrete caprock, laterite and duricrust forms over ultramafic rocks in tropical and subtropical environments....

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...

ash and lava flows that are interbedded with unconsolidated material duricrust, formed by cementation of soils, saprolith and transported material like...

profiles. Such are more generally referred to as calcrete, hardpan or duricrust. Caliche (mineral) Recent kankar sheet on Hookina Floodplain, South Australia...

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duricrust A general term for hard crust existing as a layer in or on the surface of the upper horizons of a soil in semi-arid climates. Duricrust is...

called "duricrust." The crust contained hydrated sulfate/silica materials in the Amazonian-age terrain of the landing site. The duricrust was produced...

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....

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...

region is partly due to its setting on dry alluvial soil over a hard duricrust, while the surrounding areas are rocky hills and plateaus. The thickets...

Dori, 2010 Sand desert of a dry lake near Dori, Burkina Faso, 2007 A duricrust inselberg near Dori, Burkina Faso between Dori and Yalgo, 2004 Citypopulation...

Plateau and Bougainville Peninsula are overlain by a layer of bauxitic duricrust. The southern Dampierland region, which includes the Dampier Peninsula...

northern portions of Alba's surface may contain a higher abundance of duricrusts, sand, and rocks compared to the rest of the volcano. High thermal inertia...

adapted to the soils. Often thick, magnesite-calcrete caprock, laterite and duricrust forms over ultramafic rocks in tropical and subtropical environments....

kilometers to the northwest from Ath Thayat into Jordan. In the northwest, duricrust carapace is particularly common on Paleozoic and Mesozoic units due to...

yield criterion - Drummer (soil) - Dry quicksand - Dryland salinity - Duricrust - Durisols - Dynamic compaction Ecological land classification - Ecosystem...

erodes the landscape and aids in the formation of iron deposits called duricrust or hardpans near the surface. in addition, the area between the Vina and...

rocks of the Cretaceous Winton Formation, high-uranium elevated Cenozoic duricrust surfaces, and high-thorium elevated sediment eroded from the Cenozoic...

Caenozoic to Palaeocene tropical conditions, as evidenced by mottled duricrust which records fossilised tree roots, some over 60 million years old. Previous...

remaining there until 1919. In Western Australia he made major studies of "duricrust", a term he coined and on other aspects of geomorphology. Woolnough then...

soil stripping in two layers, blasting of lateritic duricrust and finally removal of broken duricrust with the underlying friable bauxite. The lost forest...

precipitated as the ambient conditions changed, forming silcrete (a type of duricrust), with the silica forming a secondary cement binding the sediment grains...