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Summary Of: Sabkha

The origin and progression of sabkha development is discussed by Al... An immature sabkha will be inundated during higher than normal spring tides... The flatness of a sabkha is enhanced by... The net rate of evaporation from the sabkha can be as much as an order of magnitude less and has averaged 6cm for... The reasons for this are that the sabkha surface is not a free... water as much as 5km inland over the sabkha to a depth of a few centimeters... Halite is deposited on the surface of the sabkha and gypsum and aragonite precipitate in the subsurface... In drier parts of the sabkha the gypsum can be altered to anhydrite and the aragonite can be dolomitized diagenetically... Factors enabling preservation include the progradation of the sabkha with sedimentation rates of 1m... surfaces are created by the deflation of the sabkha surface that is related to the level of the groundwater table acting as a local... Sabkha deposits are believed to form some of the major subsurface reservoirs in the region... An evolutionary model for sabkha development on the north coast of the UAE... Hydrologic Framework of A Sabkha Along Arabian Gulf...

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