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Evaporite is not a mineral and needs a new home.

Open brandonnodnarb opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

The edits on PR #224 deprecate Evaporite as it is not a mineral.

Evaporite needs a new home in SWEET and the deprecated class needs a pointer to it.

brandonnodnarb avatar Apr 19 '21 03:04 brandonnodnarb

Not sure I agree. Evaporite is a generalized class which includes a set of more specific chemical substances as specializations. It is quite reasonable to have a classifier Evaporite in a polyhierarchical classification

dr-shorthair avatar Apr 27 '21 20:04 dr-shorthair

'Evaporite' is generally used to mean 'a sedimentary rock composed primarily of minerals produced from a saline solution as a result of ... evaporation" (Neuendorf et al., 2005). see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporite, http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/lithology/evaporite, https://www.mindat.org/min-49338.html 'Evaporite mineral' could be used to group water-soluble minerals commonly associated with evaporitic environments.. (halite, sylvite, anhydrite, kernite...)

smrgeoinfo avatar Apr 29 '21 15:04 smrgeoinfo