Definition of Evaporites

1. Noun. (plural of evaporite) ¹

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Definition of Evaporites

1. evaporite [n] - See also: evaporite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evaporites

evaporated
evaporated milk
evaporates
evaporating
evaporation
evaporations
evaporative
evaporative cooler
evaporative cooling
evaporatively
evaporator
evaporators
evaporimeter
evaporimeters
evaporite
evaporites (current term)
evaporitic
evaporometer
evaporometers
evapotranspiration
evapotranspirational
evapotranspiratlon
evapotranspirator
evapourate
evar
evasible
evasion
evasional
evasions
evasive

Literary usage of Evaporites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paleohydrogeological Methods and Their Applications: Proceedings of an NEA by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1993)
"During the crystallisation of evaporites from concentrated seawater and during the recrystallisation of salt rocks (eg, solution metamorphism) variable ..."

2. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"The best of these are evaporites such as gypsum and anhydrite inter-bedded with the different Arab reservoir horizons, or the overlying latest Jurassic Hith ..."

3. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"... about 100 m west of Lake Miers (78°8'29"S, 163°52'55"E) on fiat-lying, finegrained outwash and lacustrine deposits. evaporites from the area have been ..."

4. A Late Triassic Footprint Fauna from the Culpeper Basin, Northern Virginia by Robert E. Weems (1987)
"... beneath evaporites later ripped up by water currents to form the immediately overlying oolites reported by Young and Edmundson (1954) and ..."

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