User:PeterL/Evaporite

Evaporite is a term encompassing a number of minerals deposited by the evaporation of water. The most well-known of these is halite, or rock salt (sodium chloride), but it tends not to make up the majority of a given evaporite deposit. Other minerals formed when salt water evaporates include Sylvite, Polyhalite, Anhydrate, Gypsum, Dolomite, Calcite, and Magnesite.

By its very nature, in that it would have great difficulty forming in a world where even "the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered" with water, evaporite presents a problem for proponents of a Global Flood. Deposits exist across the world and geologic column, in accordance with the climactic conditions of the time and place but not any factors that would suggest a flood.

Deposition
Evaporite can be formed in a variety of ways. It can be deposited in both marine and

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