"caliche" meaning in English

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        "A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer."
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          "text": "Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).",
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