Persian Gulf sabkhas

This approach has been used quite successfully, for example, by Christophe Mon-nin (1989) to model densities of concentrated, multi-component natural brines based on volumetric data from one- and two-salt systems. Monnin s predictions agree very well with observations made on natural brines in settings such as the Red Sea and Persian Gulf sabkha regions. 

Evans, G., Schmidt, V., Bush, P. Nelson, H. (1969) Stratigraphy and geologic history of the sabkha, Abu Dhabi, Persian Gulf. SecUmentology 12, 145-159. 

Patterson, R.J. Kinsman, D.J.J. (1982) Formation of diagenetic dolomite in coastal sabkha along Arabian (Persian) Gulf. Bull. Am. Ass. petrol. Geol., 66, 28-43. 

Sulphates as well as silicates and carbonates are one of the most common minerals on the Earth s surface. They cover about 25% of continents surface (Blatt et al. 1980 Ford Williams, 1989). Their recent sedimentary environments are the terrains of the southern Mediterranean coast - coastal salt lakes of Marocco, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, Gulf of Kara Bogaz (Caspian Sea), Persian Gulf - coastal sabkhas of UAE (special Abu Dhabi Emirate) and Qatar, Texas and California (Death Valley), salt lakes of South and Central AustraUa and salt lakes, salinas and salares of South America. 

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