salt deposits
Dried brine remains
Salt deposits are natural accumulations of salt minerals, typically formed when ancient seas or salt lakes evaporated and left behind crystallized sodium chloride and other minerals.
These geological formations occur underground as rock salt beds or as surface deposits in dry lake beds: The region's salt deposits have been mined for centuries.
Salt deposits also form where water evaporates in everyday contexts—the white residue left on skin after sweating or on roads after winter salting.
- evaporiteMineral from dried brine
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- StassfurtGerman potash mining town
- gypsumHydrated calcium sulfate
- anhydriteCalcium sulfate, no hydration
arid climate · crystal · potash · sodium chloride · white gold · glittering · cavern · dome · seabed · encrusted · sodium · lick · ancient · pillar · flats · mineral · coastal lagoon · alkaline
- mineralizationcalcification, crystallization, fossilization, petrification, precipitation
- mineralsquartz, marble, granite, limestone, sandstone
- natural resourcescrude oil, lumber, water, gas, air
- saltsodium chloride, fleur de sel, saltworks, brine
- salt flatsplayas, dry lake bed, lakebed, lake bed, cracked earth
- salt lakessoda lake, dry lake, playa, salinity