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What does halite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
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In addition we can observe some minerals associated with the rocks from the Keuper strata, such as halite, calcite, anhydrite and gypsum.
A 500 m thick evaporite section comprising several zones of sylvinite with intervening zones of carnallitite and halite was outlined.
In each of these settings, progressive evaporation of seawater leads to precipitation of calcite and gypsum followed by halite.
The lower, evaporitic part of each cycle contains halite, anhydrite, and high salts.
In this process, the different dissolution behavior of halite, sylvine and primarily of kieserite is exploited.
The most common minerals of chlorine are halite, or rock salt, sylvite, and carnallite.

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