evaporite
See also: Evaporite
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editevaporite (countable and uncountable, plural evaporites)
- The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129:
- Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.
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editevaporite f (plural evaporiti)
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