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Evaporite is not a mineral and needs a new home. #248

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brandonnodnarb opened this issue Apr 19, 2021 · 2 comments
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Evaporite is not a mineral and needs a new home. #248

brandonnodnarb opened this issue Apr 19, 2021 · 2 comments
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@brandonnodnarb
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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.

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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

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'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...)

@brandonnodnarb brandonnodnarb added this to the 3.6.0 milestone Jul 14, 2022
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