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CALCRETA [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
DEF

... a conglomerate consisting of surficial sand and gravel cemented into a hard mass by calcium carbonate precipitated from solution and redeposited through the agency of infiltrating waters, or deposited by the escape of carbon dioxide from vadose water.

CONT

Calcite ... is commonly disseminated, but also occurs in indurated forms ... as nodules or as hard calcareous ... layers termed calcrete ...

CONT

Evaporites, caliche, calcrete, mudcracks, and other features record arid and semiarid continental environments of sedimentation.

OBS

calcrete: Suggested by Lamplug for conglomerates formed by the cementation of surficial gravels by calcium carbonate. Calcicrete was suggested by Bonney as preferable.

OBS

Etymology: calcareous + concrete.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
DEF

Croûte calcaire d'un sol [...]

CONT

[...] la précipitation de calcaire survient [...] notamment par évaporation. [...] C'est [...] la cause [...] de la formation de croûtes (caliches sur sédiment calcaire, calcrètes sur sédiments non calcaires) liées à la pédogenèse.

CONT

[...] en climat subaride, tropical, la formation de croûtes calcaires peut aboutir à des gîtes d'uranium de type calcrète.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencia del suelo
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