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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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The most common minerals of chlorine are halite, or rock salt, sylvite, and carnallite.
Layering is defined by halite of different colours and grain size with various concentrations of different impurities.
In addition we can observe some minerals associated with the rocks from the Keuper strata, such as halite, calcite, anhydrite and gypsum.
The lower, evaporitic part of each cycle contains halite, anhydrite, and high salts.
Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt.
In existing potash deposits, the concentration of bromine in halite has been used as an indicator of the potential for potash deposition.

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