1.The caliche itself is not found on the surface of the plain, but is covered up by two layers.

2.The caliche is then separated by means of picks from the overlying costra and carried to the refinery.

3.The caliche, or raw nitrate of soda, is not equally distributed over the pampas.

4.The more than 3-acre plot of state trust land near Eunice hasn’t been leased since the 1970s when it was mined for shallow deposits of limestone known as caliche.

5.He made his fortune from saltpetre, which was dug out of caliche - the nitrate-rich crust of the desert - and used to make fertilizer.

6.Recycling trucks are now wending their way down caliche country roads in Dimmit County and elsewhere.

7.As of early November, through Woodward’s efforts, the gravel road to the crossing has been improved and a large area has been cleared and covered with caliche.

8.Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said Smith’s body was found with the wreckage in a caliche pit.

9.The Land Office said people had been dumping trash at two pits in Lea County where caliche was mined for use in road construction and for oil drilling well pads.

10.A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit.

11.His home is about 20 miles from downtown Odessa, on an unmarked caliche road off of the Kermit Highway, amid nodding pump jacks and property covered with sage, mesquite and huisache trees.

12.In Presidio, Randy Kennedy’s debut novel, the landscape of the Panhandle, West Texas, and the Mexican border, with its caliche and shin oaks and pumpjacks and ocotillo, brushes alongside the plot like an intricate central character.

13.Development of caliche layers is rare in Canada.

14.The caliche road leads up to Hendrix’s small living quarters and spacious rustic areas used for workshops, concerts, performances and teaching.

15.It is then enlarged until it is wide enough to admit of a small boy being let down, who scrapes away the earth below the caliche so as to form a little hollow cup.

16.The mode in which the caliche is excavated is as follows: A hole is bored through the chuca, costra, and caliche layers till the cova or soft earth is reached below.

17.And yet, Berlin is not only a soulful chronicler of the lost corners of America, whose semi-autobiographical stories brim with red caliche clay, arroyos, drainage ditches and smelter towns.

18.By the time of Gilmore’s visit, Blackwater Draw was an arid, almost vegetation-free jumble of sandy drifts and faces of fractured caliche.

19.Expect gooseberry, pink grapefruit and minerality thanks to the caliche soils these vines grow in.

20.One day I was hauling caliche in the county truck to fill in holes in the road by a bridge.