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/ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/ · noun
The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates..
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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Evaporite means The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates..
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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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