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A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Caliche and scoria |
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| Description | This view, about 40 cm across, shows caliche (white) deposited on scoria (dark red). Caliche is a calcareous material that precipitates from percolating ground water, generally in near-surface environments. The scoria shown here formed in the upper level of basalt flows, just west of Death Valley National Park. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ Inyo. Near Ridgecrest. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-05-22. |
| Collection | A401118991V. |
| Key words | calishe, scoria |
| Tech details | 488 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 522 |
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