Mineralogy Database

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
BURKEITE	Na₄(SO₄)(CO₃)	sulfates	-	major

Description

Description: layered plate with parallel elongated crystals

Information: Mees, F., 2001. The development of a burkeite-dominated salt crust - an example of evaporite sedimentation in a saline pan with non-monomineralic deposits. Sedimentology 48, 1225-1233.

Origin

Country: Namibia
Region: Oshikoto Region
Locality: Etosha area, Otjivalunda East pan

Specification

Donors: Mees

Donation year: 2009
Sampling year:

Registration date:
Quantity: 1

Size:

Dimension code 1>2>3: 2

Quality code 1>2>3: 1
Holotype: no

Paratype: no

Radioactive: no
Thin section: no

Chemical analysis: no

X-Ray spectra: no

Sample n° 16091