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evaporite

NOUN
  1. the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater

How To Use evaporite In A Sentence

  • Mineralogically, these oil shales are marls or argillaceous limestones, which may be associated with volcanic tuffs and evaporites. The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book).
  • These minerals are referred to as evaporite minerals. Boron
  • Evaporites undergo changes on burial owing to reactions between interstitial brines and previously deposited salts to produce new suites of minerals.
  • There is strong sedimentological evidence that the evaporites were precipitated in sabkhas or desert salt lakes.
  • Water soluble salts can form sedimentary mineral deposits when they precipitate during evaporation of lake or seawater (evaporite deposits). AP Environmental Science Chapter 10- Minerals
  • The Upper Miocene evaporite basins in the Mediterranean region – a study in paleo-oceonography. Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
  • This is due to the rapid dissolution of evaporites.
  • Evaporite minerals such as halite (sodium chloride, or table salt) and gypsum produce the white deposits. NASA Earth Observatory
  • The researchers have considered whether volcanism or salt diapirism (a process where evaporite minerals intrude vertically into surrounding rock, forming dome-like structures on the surface) could be responsible for the annulus. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • In addition, such naturally-occurring sources of perchlorate as potash fertilizer and evaporite soils exist. Fate and effects of perchlorate
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