Definitions
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- noun A thin
hard layer found near the surface insoil .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The plan is to attempt to drive the rover forward, which is actually backward, since the rover was driving in reverse when it entered this area where it broke through a "duricrust" and fell through to the talcum powder-like soil.
Ok, Spirit Rover, Let's Blow This Pop Stand! | Universe Today 2009
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Above the granite bedrock is a characteristic soil structure, consisting of seasonally well-aerated and well-watered sandy soils of 0.6 m to 3 m in depth that desiccate and harden during the dry season, with an impermeable "duricrust" of cement-like consistency beneath.
Itigi-Sumbu thicket 2008
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In southeast Queensland there are also localized remnant Tertiary surfaces with duricrust and laterite.
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Gently undulating plains on Cretaceous sediments surround the floodplains, often with a duricrust forming a dense gravel or rock (gibber) surface pavement.
Simpson desert 2008
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Caliche is also known as hardpan, calcrete, kankar (in India), or duricrust.
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Caliche is also known as hardpan, calcrete, kankar (in India), or duricrust.
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