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  • Water enter from creeks, bringing whatever material it has dissolved in its way

    - The materials is being build up throughout time in the lake or sea, causing its salinity to increase

    - when this saline solution is evaporated, the ions in the water precipitate, forming an evaporite
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Sediments are buried, pressure increases, volume of sediment decreases, sandstone compresses, saline solution becomes evaporated, and then forms an evaporite.

What is an evaporite?

An evaporite can be defined as a mineral deposit containing saline substances that are produced due to the evaporation of a water body.

In this context, the sequence of events in the formation of an evaporite are listed as follows:

  1. Sediments are buried.
  2. Increase pressure pushes the grains closer together.
  3. Decrease in the volume of sediment, which cause fluids between the grains to be squeezed out.
  4. Sandstone are left tightly compressed together.
  5. The saline solution becomes evaporated, and then the ions contained in the water precipitates, forming an evaporite.

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