Crossword-Solution: KUNKAR 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There is a substratum of _kunkar_ throughout the whole of that part of the country, and to some mixture of this earth with the surface soil the fertility of the latter is ascribed:-- 1 2 3 Hygrometric moisture, on drying at 212 deg.

Below the vegetable mass they entered upon a stratum of yellowish clay about ten feet thick, containing horizontal layers of kunkar (or kankar), a nodular, concretionary, argillaceous limestone, met with abundantly at greater or less depths in all parts of the valley of the Ganges, over many thousand square miles, and always presenting the same characters, even at a distance of one thousand miles north of Calcutta.

Some of this kunkar is said to be of very recent origin in deposits formed by river inundations near Saharanpoor.