---- OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>       I also have no argument with your purpose ~ 100% Agreement here ~ I actually don't know that what I was driving on
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> was Actually Chemically Caliche ~ It's just the Term that we here in the SW attach to RoadsThatTrunToGrease when they get
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> EverSoSlightly Wet ~

Oh, I am quite certain that you were dealing with caliche.  I have been on it quite a few times, especially in West Texas.  Slicker than owl grease when wet, and quite sloppy, almost fluid on the surface.  There is a pinkish tint to it in much of West Texas, eastern New Mexico.

David McNeely