Evaporite

//ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates. countable, uncountable

    "Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out."

  2. 2
    the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater wordnet

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"Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out."

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