What does "petrocalcic" mean?

Of or relating to a kind of soil horizon formed when secondary calcium carbonates or other carbonates accumulate in the subsoil to the extent that the soil becomes cemented into a hardpan.

Petrocalcic

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to a kind of soil horizon formed when secondary calcium carbonates or other carbonates accumulate in the subsoil to the extent that the soil becomes cemented into a hardpan. not-comparable

Etymology

From petro- + calcic.

Related phrases

calcium carbonate

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