Halite is made when a body of seawater becomes closed off and evaporates and salt precepitates out and is deposited as crystallized halite.what type of sedemintary rock is formed
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Halite is made when a body of seawater becomes closed off and evaporates. As the water evaporates it the remaining water can no longer hold the same amount of salt. The salt precipitates out and is deposited as crystallized halite or rock salt. Selenite is an evaporate made of calcium sulfate that has many forms.
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A sedimentary rock composed of the mineral halite is rock salt.
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- Halite is made when a body of seawater becomes closed off and evaporates.
- As the water evaporates it the remaining water can no longer hold the same amount of salt.
- The salt precipitates out and is deposited as crystallized halite or rock salt.
- Selenite is an evaporate made of calcium sulfate that has many forms.
- Rock salt in crystals of halite there are ions of two different kinds the smaller ones are those of sodium and the larger ones are those of chlorine.
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