An evaporite (/ɪˈvæpəˌraɪt/) is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an...

The Messinian evaporite deposit is a geological deposit of evaporites which was found on Sicily and named after the city of Messina. It was later found...

Carbonates and Evaporites is an international scientific journal published 4 times a year by Springer and provides a forum for the exchange of concepts...

from below the deep seafloor of the Mediterranean Sea, which include evaporite minerals, soils, and fossil plants, show that the precursor of the Strait...

(Arabic: سبخة) is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate....

The Prairie Evaporite Formation, also known as the Prairie Formation, is a geologic formation of Middle Devonian (Givetian) age that consists primarily...

the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine...

Givetian to Frasnian age and consists of thin shale-carbonate-evaporite cycles. The Hubbard Evaporite is recognised at the top of the Montana Group in the Elk...

sub-parallel mountainous ridges that formed by folding over a Triassic evaporite decollement due to thrust movements in the foreland of the Alps The 'Simply...

borosilicate hydroxide (Ca2B5SiO9(OH)5), is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits. Howlite was discovered near Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1868 by...

a salty taste with a distinct bitterness. Sylvite is one of the last evaporite minerals to precipitate out of solution. As such, it is found only in...

Thickness Reference Poplar Beds Meramecian limestone, argillaceous dolomite, evaporite 152 m (500 ft) Ratcliffe Beds Osagian dense dolomite, mudstone with three...

sodium sesquicarbonate dihydrate, Na2CO3·NaHCO3·2H2O) is a non-marine evaporite mineral. It is mined as the primary source of sodium carbonate in the...

the Delaware and Midland Basins that grade up-dip into siltstones and evaporites. The Eastern and Northwestern Shelves are subdivided into the San Andres...

Himalayan salt comes from a thick layer of Ediacaran to early Cambrian evaporites of the Salt Range Formation. This geological formation consists of crystalline...

also crystallizes as translucent crystals of selenite. It forms as an evaporite mineral and as a hydration product of anhydrite. The Mohs scale of mineral...

shilajit-bearing clay mass. The content of extractive substances is 0.5–5.0%. Evaporite shilajit occurs in formations of streaks, icicles and shiny black or gray...

structure, under an unconformity or in a structure created by the creep of an evaporite. In a salt dome trap, masses of salt are pushed up through clastic rocks...

increased tropical cyclone activity. Miocene 5.92-5.32 Mya / Italy / Evaporite varve thickness The varve close to the Mediterranean shows 2–7 year variability...

standing surface water body Sabkha – Salt lake above the tide line, where evaporite deposits accumulate Salt diapir – Structural dome formed of salt or halitePages...

temperature—which are interactive and can induce precipitation of evaporites. Deposits of evaporites accumulated earlier in the nearby Carpathian foredeep during...

Limestones may also form in evaporite depositional environments. Calcite is one of the first minerals to precipitate in marine evaporites. Most limestone is formed...

particularly high albedo, albeit with comparable variability as well. While evaporite deposition predominates on chotts, in more humid climatic periods, layers...

halogens (group 17) typically occur. Calcium chloride occurs as the rare evaporite minerals sinjarite (dihydrate) and antarcticite (hexahydrate). Another...

was restricted and seawater often evaporated completely to form thick evaporite deposits of Jurassic age. These salt deposits formed salt dome diapirs...

Carnallite (also carnalite) is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KCl.MgCl2·6(H2O). It is variably colored yellow...

Cumbrian coast and beneath the Vale of Eden. It comprises the St Bees Evaporite and the overlying St Bees Shale Formation which are between 0 and 100m...

Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, but represents a facies change from marine to evaporite-dominated strata – which would mean that dates from other sections, ranging...

is a common weathering product of ultramafic and mafic rocks. It is found in high-pH evaporite lakes and in association with basalts or serpentines....

of the Silurian, sea levels dropped again, leaving telltale basins of evaporites extending from Michigan to West Virginia, and the new mountain ranges...