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evaporite Geol. (ɪˈvæpəraɪt) [f. evaporate n.: see -ite1.] A deposit of sodium chloride or other salts resulting from the evaporation of a body of water.1924 C. P. Berkey in Bull. N.Y. State Mus. CCLI. 116 The genetic idea is carried better if the product of evaporation were called an evaporate, as ...
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Evaporite
Examples of evaporite formations include occurrences of evaporite sulfur in Eastern Europe and West Asia. Major groups of evaporite minerals
This is a chart that shows minerals that form the marine evaporite rocks, they are usually the most common minerals
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Messinian evaporite
The Messinian evaporite deposit is a geological deposit of evaporites which was found on Sicily and named after the city of Messina.
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Thénardite
Thénardite is an anhydrous sodium sulfate mineral, Na2SO4 which occurs in arid evaporite environments, specifically lakes and playas. Sodium minerals
Sulfate minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 70
Cave minerals
Evaporite
Luminescent minerals
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Mirabilite
It is a vitreous, colorless to white monoclinic mineral that forms as an evaporite from sodium sulfate-bearing brines. External links
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"Mirabilite as a tracer of past evolution of the Aral Sea"
Sodium minerals
Sulfate minerals
Evaporite
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Gaylussite
Discovery and occurrence
It is formed as an evaporite from alkali lacustrine waters. It also occurs rarely as veinlets in alkalic igneous rocks. References
Sodium minerals
Calcium minerals
Carbonate minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 15
Evaporite
Luminescent minerals
Minerals
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Fontarnauite
It is found in an evaporite boron deposit. It coexists with other evaporite boron minerals, especially probertite.
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Langbeinite
The mineral is an ore of potassium and occurs in marine evaporite deposits in association with carnallite, halite, and sylvite. References
Sulfate minerals
Evaporite
Cubic minerals
Minerals in space group 198
Minerals described in 1891
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Polyhalite
Polyhalite is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated sulfate of potassium, calcium and magnesium with formula: . References
Magnesium minerals
Calcium minerals
Potassium minerals
Sulfate minerals
Triclinic minerals
Evaporite
Potash
Minerals in space group 2
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Glauberite
Glauberite often forms in continental and marine evaporite deposits, but may also form from hydrothermal deposits, as mineral sublimates deposited near References
Sodium minerals
Calcium minerals
Sulfate minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 15
Evaporite
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Carbonates and Evaporites
journal published 4 times a year by Springer and provides a forum for the exchange of concepts, research and applications on all aspects of carbonate and evaporite This includes the origin and stratigraphy of carbonate, and evaporite rocks and issues unique to these rock types: weathering phenomena, notably karst;
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Ochoan
This post-Guadalupian stage is known for high levels of evaporite deposits.
Permian geochronology
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Manitoba Group
Lithology
The Manitoba Group is composed of alternating cycles of shale, carbonate and evaporite. The Hubbard Evaporite is recognised at the top of the Montana Group in the Elk Point Basin.
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Paleocollapse
As in the illustration, a deeper layer of salt (or other evaporite) is dissolved, through some process. Or perhaps, the reason that a certain evaporite zone has dissolved, is because of underlying faults in the bedrock.
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Munising Formation
Anhydritic evaporite deposits are present in places. Geologic formations of Ontario
Cambrian System of North America
Cambrian Michigan
Cambrian Canada
Conglomerate formations
Fluvial deposits
Deltaic deposits
Evaporite
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