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Evaporite facies of the Michigan Basin
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William B. Harrison III
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William B. Harrison III
Geosciences Department and Michigan Geological Survey, Western Michigan University, 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA
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Peter J. Voice
Peter J. Voice
Geosciences Department and Michigan Geological Survey, Western Michigan University, 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA
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Published:May 10, 2018
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09 June 2017
20 February 2018
ABSTRACT
The Michigan Basin is one of the world’s important sedimentary basins that contains significant quantities of evaporites. Here, evaporites are found in deposits of Ordovician through Mississippian age rocks; however, most of the thick evaporite accumulations occur in Silurian and Devonian intervals. Halite is most significant in the Silurian Salina Group, with a maximum aggregate thickness of halite exceeding 650 m (2150 ft). During the earliest evaporite deposition in the Salina Group (A-1 Evaporite), sylvite was widely deposited in the north-central portion of the basin within the upper 91.4 m (300 ft) of the formation. Devonian salt is also...
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GSA Special Papers
Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Resources of the Michigan Basin
Geological Society of America

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531
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© 2018 The Geological Society of America. All rights reserved.
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9780813795317
Publication date:
May 10, 2018
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- anhydrite
- basins
- Carboniferous
- chemically precipitated rocks
- chlorides
- evaporites
- facies
- gypsum
- halides
- halite
- Lucas Formation
- Michigan
- Michigan Basin
- mineral composition
- mineral economics
- Mississippian
- North America
- Ordovician
- Paleozoic
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentation
- sulfates
- sylvite
- United States
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