Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sedimentary deposit of precipitated minerals, formed by the evaporation of saline water.
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- noun The salty, crusty,
sediment that remains after sea waterevaporates .
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- noun the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These minerals are referred to as evaporite minerals.
Boron 2008
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Its salt became a layer of rock salt, called evaporite, which was then buried by windblown sediment.
Lockergnome 2008
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Gypsum is an evaporite mineral, meaning that the crystal is the build-up that is left over from evaporated mineral-rich water.
Gigantic Mexican Megacrystals Created by Climate Change | Inhabitat 2010
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The reef was subsequently buried and preserved under layers of evaporite salts and sediments and between 65 and 6 mya was uplifted to form the Guadeloupe mountains.
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Howse about particularly pure evaporite deposits from old, you know ...
Winter cover crop. Ann Althouse 2009
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The Upper Miocene evaporite basins in the Mediterranean region – a study in paleo-oceonography.
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The upper miocene evaporite basins in the Mediterranean region: A study in paleo-oceanography.
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Water soluble salts can form sedimentary mineral deposits when they precipitate during evaporation of lake or seawater (evaporite deposits).
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Very large deposits of evaporite boron minerals are found in the United States (especially California), Turkey, Chile and Argentina.
Boron 2008
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In addition, such naturally-occurring sources of perchlorate as potash fertilizer and evaporite soils exist.
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