evaporite in a sentence
Examples
- On that basis, there should be places where local lakes evaporated to dryness and produced evaporite minerals.
- The formation is a sequence of dolomite, lacustrine limestones, claystone, evaporites, and fluviatile sandstones.
- These evaporite minerals are a concentration of weathering products such as sodium carbonate, borax, and other salts.
- The latter is diverse, including evaporites such as halite and gypsum in addition to its limestones and shales.
- The red bed sediments of the Red Hills were deposited in an arid continental lacustrine sediments and gypsum evaporites.
- It occurs in sedimentary marine evaporites and is a major potassium ore mineral in the Carlsbad Deposits of New Mexico.
- Gypsum, an evaporite mineral, is known for its fragility against freshwater invasion, re-dissolving quite readily.
- Ulexite is found in evaporite deposits and the precipitated ulexite commonly forms a " cotton ball " tuft of acicular crystals.
- It occurs as fumarolic incrustations in volcanic environments, as small crystals and masses in evaporite deposits and in guano deposits.
- Due to evaporite effects, the lake is mineral rich and salty and sodium and potassium salts are extracted from it.