Criteria for the recognition of acid-precipitated halite

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 273-292

  Jagniecki, Elliot A ^a   Benison, Kathleen C ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Hairy blobs'; Accessory minerals; Acid saline lakes; Fluid inclusions; Halite; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY MINERAL; ACID WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORITE; FLUID INCLUSION; HALITE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); ROCK SALT; SALINE LAKE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 72549088520     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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