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INVESTIGATIONS of sediments from the hypersaline environment of the Tuz Gölü, a seasonal salt lake in Central Anatolia, Turkey (Fig. 1), showed that huntite, CaMg3 (CO3)4, dolomite and magnesite are often present in the play a muds. More than 95 per cent of the sediments of the playa are made up of greyish-white to black muds with an average diameter of about 2 microns or less (silty clay muds). Large authigenic idiotopic gypsum crystals with a maximum length of 4 cm occur throughout the sediment.
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IRION, G., MÜLLER, G. Huntite, Dolomite, Magnesite and Polyhalite of Recent Age from Tuz Gölü, Turkey. Nature 220, 1309–1310 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201309b0
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