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evaporiteAny of a variety of minerals found in sedimentary deposits of soluble salts that result from the evaporation of water. Typically, evaporite deposits occur in closed marine basins where evaporation exceeds inflow. The most important such minerals include anhydrite, halite, calcite, gypsum, polyhalite, and potassium and magnesium salts such as sylvite, carnallite, kainite, and kieserite. evaporite [i′vap·ə‚rīt] (geology) Deposits of mineral salts from sea water or salt lakes due to evaporation of the water. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Campbell worked on numerous projects in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin involving carbonate, evaporite and siliciclastic sequences. Interference of evaporites in the overlying sequence effectively blocks Induced Polarization and chargeability measurements. By contrast, a large subject like "evaporites" is treated in a single entry, in which, in limited space, the authors attempt to produce an encyclopedic entry covering such disparate topics as the economic uses, social history, environment of formation, and geochemistry of evaporites, as well as the Phanerozoic evolution of seawater. |
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