Owens Lake, California, a saline terminal lake desiccated after diversion of its water source, was formerly the single largest anthropogenic source of fugitive dust in North America. Over 100 billion m 3 yr 1 of fresh water are projected to be used for mandated dust control in over 100 km of constructed basins required to be wetted to curtail emissions. An extensive evaporite deposit is located...

Introduction: The search for life on Mars involves many potential strategies for the analysis in situ of surface samples or the analysis of returned samples in a controlled environment, in particular analyses seek evidence of tangible life and/or biomolecules. It is important to develop mineralogical standards suitable for testing the techniques that will be used for these analyses. Evaporites ...

It is shown that the giant Sikhote-Alin and Pamir deposits of boron are associated with fragments boron-bearing evaporite strata paleoceanic atolls in subduction melange. Ore formation relates both to situ transformation at Ak-Arkhar deposit mobilization redeposition some distance away from source course intensive post-accretionary fluid-magmatic reworking melange Dalnegorskoe deposit.

[1] The East Candor Interior Layered Deposit (ILD) has signatures of monoand polyhydrated sulfate in alternating layers that give insight into the processes which formed these layered deposits and on the environmental conditions acting on them since then. We use orbital data to explore multiple hypotheses for how these deposits formed: (1) sulfate-bearing ILDs experience hydration changes on se...

Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Mârmorilik Formation in the Karrat basin of West Greenland hosts Black Angel Zn–Pb deposit. Chlorine-rich scapolite, zones with vuggy porosity and quartz nodules ore-bearing marble are herein interpreted to represent metamorphosed, vanished, replaced evaporites, respectively. Mineralization is closely associated anhydrite δ 34 S values (5.2–12.6‰) broadly comparabl...

Introduction: The OMEGA instrument on Mars Express has recently detected the largest gypsum deposit on Mars within the north polar sand sea [1]. Here we discuss the unique geologic context and origin of this evaporite deposit. Gypsum on Earth and Mars: Gypsum is a hydrated Ca-sulfate (2H 2 O • CaSO 4). Though gypsum can be formed, for example, as a hydrothermal deposit [e.g., 2] or as an altera...

Organically preserved algal microfossils from the Ringwood evaporite deposit in the Gillen Member of the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian of central Australia) are of small size, low diversity, and probable prokaryotic affinities. These rather primitive characteristics appear to reflect the stressful conditions that prevailed in a periodically stagnant, hypersaline lagoon. This assemb...

A sedimentological investigation of Miocene deposits at the periphery Zagros foreland basin , Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq, reveals a cyclical arrangement carbonate-evaporite ramp facies . The study aims to provide rare insight into lateral variability microfacies and environments such systems' inner shoreline Between 10 40 depositional cycles are preserved, separated by flooding surface, recordin...