Abstract
Caliche with pisolitic horizons have been recognized in the soils in the Mediterranean coast area of Spain from Almeria to Barcelona and Lleida. In the southern area the pisolitic horizons develop on old calchified aluvial fans as well as on volcanic rocks. In the middle and north of the Mediterranean coast they appear overlaying carbonate and metamorphic rocks.
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Calvet, F., Julià, R. (1983). Pisoids in the Caliche Profiles of Tarragona (N.E. Spain). In: Peryt, T.M. (eds) Coated Grains. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68869-0_40
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