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countable and uncountable, plural evaporites
The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates. quotations examples
Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129