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Caliche is a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate; calcium carbonate cements other lithic materials, such as gravel, sand grains, and clay deposits. It is found in dry and soft soils.
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caliche

Summary

caliche ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (364 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • caliche's image is recorded as Caliche - Sedimentary Rock Ridgecrest Kern County California.jpg[2].
  • caliche's subclass of is recorded as sedimentary rock[3].
  • caliche's Commons category is recorded as Caliche[4].
  • caliche's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05y67j[5].
  • caliche's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011285[6].
  • caliche's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/calcrete[7].
  • caliche's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as caliche[8].
  • caliche's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778001496[9].
  • caliche's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 14869748-n[10].

Why It Matters

caliche ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (364 views/month).[1] caliche has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] caliche is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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