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rock salt
(redirected from halite)

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rock salt
salt in large crystalline masses, mined from extensive underground deposits. Used commonly as salt licks on pasture.


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Soluble Salt Accumulations The most common soluble salts in soils are calcium and magnesium carbonates and calcium sulfate (gypsum), although other salts such as halite occur in some soils.
The salt precipitates out and is deposited as crystallized halite.
Radioactive dating of the 600-meter-thick halite deposits, and of the sediments above and below them, indicates that the salty strata formed even before dinosaurs walked the Earth.
 
 
 
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