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The sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater
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evaporite
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n. the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater
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Evaporite is a name for a water-soluble mineral sediment that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution. There are two types of evaporite deposits: marine, which can also be described as ocean deposits, and non-marine, ...
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n. The salty, crusty, sediment that remains after sea water evaporates.
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Evaporite deposits of anhydrite and gypsum were formed in the circum-Atlantic rifting and circum-Tethyan zones, and evoke a picture of coastal deserts such as near the modern Red Sea.