evaporite in English

noun
1
a natural salt or mineral deposit left after the evaporation of a body of water.
Turbidite deposits and westward younging of limestones and evaporites record the development of the foreland fold and thrust belt during the Late Carboniferous Epoch.

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1. Mineralization is not obviously related to structure, unconformities, or evaporite solution.

2. Carnallite is defined as an evaporite mineral, which is a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride

3. It was created by the upwelling of ancient evaporite (salt) deposits that exist beneath the Mississippi River Delta region.

4. Poorly sorted, feldspathic, clastic sediments disconformably overlie the evaporite sediments and adjacent basement rocks composed of metasediments and granite.

5. This basalt-driven geothermal system circulates evaporite-derived low total S brines that precipitate hematite–chalcopyrite–cobaltian pyrite–Allanitic epidote veins

6. The moat is filled by sediments formed by erosion and by alluvial, evaporite and lacustrine sediments left behind by lakes.

7. The unusually high Albite content in some rock types of this and the other more evaporitic facies is a distinctive feature of the Gurumanas Evaporite Member

8. A member of the evaporite group of minerals and the soft rock comprising Anhydrite formed by precipitation of calcium sulfate from evaporation of seawater

9. We have identified four Earth Analogs of planetary environments: 1) ancient hydrothermal environments, 2) banded iron formations, 3) red beds, and 4) acid evaporite environments

10. A renewed tensional regime accompanied by marine transgression during the higher Permian produced evaporite deposits and minor epigenetic mineralization dominated by Fe in the Austro-Alpine area.

11. Carnallite is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KMgCl 3 ·6 (H 2 O). It is variably colored yellow to white, reddish, and sometimes colorless or blue

12. Carnallite (countable and uncountable, plural Carnallites) ( mineralogy ) An evaporite composed of a mixture of potassium chloride and magnesium chloride , with the chemical formula K Mg Cl 3 · 6 H 2 O .

13. An Anhydrite is an evaporite group of minerals with a whitish or off-white color that is formed by the precipitation of calcium sulfate when water is removed from salt and sulfate deposits.

14. Sulfur isotope abundance data for minerals of the historically important alunite deposits of the Tolfa district indicate (1) compositional similarity between sulfates and sulfides (mean δS34 values of +5.54 and +6.34 permil respectively), (2) negligible fractionation factors (0.995 to 1.004) for sulfate-sulfide mineral pairs, (3) two distinct sulfide isotopic populations characterized by pyrite (+8.34 permil) and marcasite (−1.05 permil) and with associated alunite displaying a covariant isotopic shift, and (4) possible contamination of the hydrothermal system by evaporite sulfate (+25.1 permil) because hypogene pyrite, galena, and cinnabar are enriched in S34 (+6.1 to +10.3 permil).