Plants can contribute to the formation of caliche, as well.

One went into the chamber, the last he placed on a stone to keep it out of the caliche dust.

Soil saturation above the caliche bed can make the condition worse.

An inch of rain pelts the caliche in something under 20 minutes.

Oriane smiled as she lifted the child into the caliche.

Some places, it was cleaned right back to dry caliche ledges.

However, caliche can also form in other ways.

Her success caused other schools' coaches to call asking how to also obtain a "caliche" training surface.

"You're going to be feeling like that all the time with this caliche blanco you've found.

The structure is made of caliche, and has managed to survive the extreme weather conditions for about seven centuries.

Art interrupted to ask again about the caliche blanco.

Natural resources included caliche, sand, gravel, oil, and gas.

When residents give directions to outsiders they do not use street names but begin with the instructions, "Go to the caliche pit and turn right."

After impact with the truck, the school bus left the roadway and plunged into a caliche pit.

But they changed their minds when a Roman head engraved in metal was found near the site of the cross, also covered with caliche.

His patrol car had sunk into the sucking, bottomless caliche mud.

Caliche is widely used as a base material when it is locally available and cheap.

The two-story rock house is constructed of 16-inch thick native limestone and local caliche blocks.

There is a mineral called caliche that is found in dry deserts.

See, the driver got up on that caliche outcropping and kept on going."

Dry holes and dusty caliche and nothing much more all the way back to Austin, four hundred miles away.

The cross was encrusted in caliche, a hard crust of calcium carbonate.

Built before 1350 using a concretelike substance called caliche, the building's walls face the four cardinal points of the compass.

House design evolved into post-reinforced pit houses, covered with caliche adobe.

They may have subsurface zones of caliche or duripan.