The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Little would grow in that harsh caliche soil of my country.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

In the desert Daniel glides over rocky caliche and scrub brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ugly Man] Reference

Consider the issue of soil alkalinity build up aka “caliche”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit] Reference

In some cases, these deposits can form a hard layer called caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soil] Reference

He watched the agent walk across the blindingly white caliche parking lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspeakable] Reference

To remove very hard caliche it may have to be chipped away with a pick or hoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

He pointed to a ribbon of white caliche hugging the rim of the rugged plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Called Jesse]

It is also retrieved as a by-product with nitrate deposits in caliche deposits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iodine] Reference

Production from caliche is presently the most economical of the options listed here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iodine] Reference

The sources of CaCO3 are rainwater, wind-blown dust, and soil layers above the caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

A half mile beyond the Halliburton City Limit marker, Quintana turned onto a caliche road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clean Kill]

The beds were dug down below the hardpan and the dirt sifted to remove the rocks and caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Winter Hoop Garden Part 1] Reference

Ahead of them, to the west, the caliche sloped gently down again, pocked by dry gulches the size of ballparks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

Afternoon rains caused the water levels in the caliche pit to rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [KGBT 4 - KGBT - News of the Rio Grande Valley] Reference

It has left muddy caliche even when it's dry, to chisel off our vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference

I guess it might be a cute gift for someone who digs up caliche for a living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference

• Discuss the addition of a caliche parking lot at the Special Events Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovis News Journal : News] Reference

Chile and Peru, caliche refers to the nitrate salt deposits of the Atacama Desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Sometime around four-thirty, I drove up the long caliche road to the ranch entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogger News Network] Reference

Exxon filled in the bubbling-road hole in December and covered it with caliche, Burns said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

If your soil bottoms out in caliche clay or bedrock, underground storage may not be for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [SurvivalBlog.com] Reference

More than 80 acres of an old caliche pit are used for the two-mile track and six-mile trails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monitor :] Reference

In northern Chile and Peru, caliche refers to the nitrate salt deposits of the Atacama Desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Some areas have more clay than sand -- not caliche clay, but what they refer to colloquially as.    From Wordnik.com.  [eHam.net News] Reference

A bulldozer working in a caliche pit struck the 14-inch natural gas pipeline sometime before 4pm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somervell County Salon] Reference

See, the driver got up on that caliche outcropping and kept on going. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Clean Kill]

Diggin in that hard caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Country For Old Men]

It's commonly known as caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Owsley on Kennewick Man] Reference

Impermeable layer in soil e.g., caliche.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

Ceniza and blackbrush occur on caliche soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

It feels like you're on a caliche road, "Fabian Molina said.    From Wordnik.com.  [KRIS - RSS | Local News] Reference

The streets are just caliche that was thrown down 15 years ago and has not been repaired. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference