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minerals that form from evaporation?

can you name three of them, this is a hard one:)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Halides: halite, sylvite (KCl), and fluorite

    Sulfates: such as gypsum, barite, and anhydrite

    Nitrates: nitratite (soda niter) and niter

    Borates: typically found in arid-salt-lake deposits plentiful in the southwestern US. A common borate is borax, which has been used in soaps as a surfactant.

    Carbonates: such as trona, formed in inland brine lakes.

  • 1 decade ago

    Any evaporite mineral forms from evaporation

    1. Gypsum

    2. Halite

    3. Calcite

    there are many, many more

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