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Cobbles in eastern Utah and western Colorado on surfaces of and, imbedded in caliche-impregnated terrace deposits show surface fractures. The fracturing may be due to caliche minerals migrating into the cobbles and exerting internal pressure during recrystallization.
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Roger G. Young (1964) studied this question.
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