caliche - is a dirt that covers 60% of Texas' surface (Logan @ A&M)
A crude sodium nitrate occurring naturally in Chile, Peru, and the southwest United States, used as fertilizer.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, pebble in a brick, flake of lime, from cal, lime, from Latin calx, calc-, lime; see calx.]
definition by freedictionary.com
I took some home.
and separated it into respective components:
thin layer of lime
water
the rest
and then various
pieces of rubbish
paper
plastic
textile
glass
and stones,
which I separated into
categories by colour
for now.
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