different between subsoil vs caliche
subsoil
English
Etymology
sub- +? soil
Noun
subsoil (countable and uncountable, plural subsoils)
- The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.
Translations
Verb
subsoil (third-person singular simple present subsoils, present participle subsoiling, simple past and past participle subsoiled)
- (transitive) To turn up the subsoil of.
Derived terms
- subsoiler
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caliche
English
Etymology
From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??lit?i/
Noun
caliche (countable and uncountable, plural caliches)
- (mineralogy) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
- A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
- 1929, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, page 44,
- According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard caliche or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the caliche escarpment.
- 1985, Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country, page 17,
- Having a layer of caliche at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
- 2011, Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey, Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan (editors), Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research, page 186,
- Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).
- 1929, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, page 44,
Anagrams
- chalice
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- calighe
- calixi (campidanese)
Etymology
From Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (kúlix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kalike/
Noun
caliche m (plural caliches)
- cup, wine glass
- chalice
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin calx (“pebble”).
Noun
caliche m (plural caliches)
- saltpeter
- salitre
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