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XiaoTian joseph CAO's avatar

"Saliferous & Gypseous": adj. Salty and feral. ;)

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Mike Reinke's avatar

Yes old books are very good. Nice info. Thanks.

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Edward Zbik's avatar

Thanks Steve, there is a reason that that old books should be kept, these books discuss in detail the probable locality and formation of minerals and their locality. I have a decent meter shelf space of books dating before 1951 together with 3 meters of the old AIMM Sydney Library, bound and another 4 meters of the old CSIRO library of offsets and individual publications,

halite is becoming a minerals as i am encountering more and more in micros

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Margaret Beal's avatar

Thanks Steve, nice back-story on Krause, plus a very useful explanation of halite and sea-water precipitation. :-)

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