Sand consisting of a mixture of light- and dark-colored grains.
A diapiric or piercement structure, like a salt dome except that the salt
core is linear rather than equidimensional, e.g., the salt anticlines in
the Paradox basin of the central Colorado Plateau. Syn:salt wall
AGI
A mode of sediment transport in which the particles are moved
progressively forward in a series of short intermittent leaps, hops, or
bounces from a bottom surface; e.g., sand particles skipping downwind by
impact and rebound along a desert surface, or bounding downstream under
the influence of eddy currents that are not turbulent enough to retain the
particles in suspension and thereby return them to the streambed at some
distance downstream. It is intermediate in character between suspension
and the rolling or sliding of traction. Etymol: Latin saltare, to jump,
leap. AGI
a. An installation of vacuum pans or grainers for producing salt by
evaporation. Kaufmann
b. Evaporated salt or fine rock salt mechanically compressed into dense
blocks, usually 50 lb (20 to 25 kg) in weight, for stock feeding.
Kaufmann
The lower portion of a vacuum pan into which finished salt settles; also,
the pit or tank into which the barometric leg of a vacuum pan drops salt.
Kaufmann
A flat piece of relatively low-lying ground encrusted with salt.
AGI
A small reservoir or tank, usually cylindrical, with a false bottom for
drainage and a cleanout door, placed under an evaporator for removal of
salt. Kaufmann
Usually an inverted glass U-shaped tube filled with a sodium chloride
solution, the two legs of which dip into the connecting two vessels of
electrolyte, forming an electrochemical cell. Kaufmann
Commercial term for sodium sulfate, Na2 SO4 . AGI
See:saltpit
A method of binding mine roadway dust by spraying the area with salt and
water. The salt is subjected to wetting and drying cycles. The deposited
dust is bound at first by surface tension and then in the
recrystallization of the dissolved salt. Nelson
A diapir or piercement structure with a central, nearly equidimensional
salt plug, generally 1 to 2 km or more in diameter, which has risen
through the enclosing sediments from a mother salt bed 5 km to more than
10 km beneath the top of the plug. Many salt plugs have a cap rock of less
soluble evaporite minerals, esp. anhydrite. The enclosing sediments are
commonly turned up and complexly faulted next to a salt plug, and the more
permeable beds serve as reservoirs for oil and gas. Certain salt domes are
sources of salt and sulfur. Salt domes are characteristic features of the
Gulf Coastal Plain in North America and the North German Plain in Europe,
but occur in many other regions. CF:salt anticline
salt tectonics. AGI
The solubility of a precipitate in a solution of an electrolyte that has
no ion in common with the precipitate is higher than it is in pure water.
This is not the salting-out effect. CF:salting out
a. A saltworks where salt is produced by boiling or evaporation of salt or
brine. AGI
b. See:salt garden
The level, salt-encrusted bottom of a lake or pond that is temporarily or
permanently dried up; e.g., the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake
City, UT. See also:playa; alkali flat. AGI
A simple form of furnace for heating evaporating pans in a salt plant.
Kaufmann
A large, shallow basin or pond where seawater is evaporated by solar heat.
Syn:saltern
A quarryman's term for aplite. See also:salt vein
The fraudulent adulteration of a sample, for example, adding a small
amount of gold to a sample to make it appear that the gold content of the
rock is much higher than it actually is. Salting may be accidental, caused
by the fortuitous segregation of rich mineral during sampling. Sampling
methods are conducted to reduce chance segregation to a minimum.
Nelson
Sprinkling gold or rich ore upon or digging it into the ground, or placing
it in samples for assay. Drill holes for uranium may be salted before
logging with radiation counters.
An evaporator that produces crystals or other solids, in distinction to
one that only concentrates liquids. Kaufmann