Salt Deposits Their Origin and Composition: Minerals, Rocks and Mountains, cartea 4

A. Introduction.- 1. Outline of the Theme and Statement of the Problem.- 2. On the History of Seawater.- 3. The Zechstein Salt Succession.- 4. The Minerals of Salt Deposits.- B. The Stability Conditions of Salt Minerals.- The Graphic Presentation of Solubility Data.- C. Physico-chemical Models.- I. Primary Precipitation.- II. Thermal Metamorphism.- III. Solution Metamorphism.- IV. Dynamic Metamorphism.- V. The Behaviour of Minor Components.- D. Natural Salt Sequences and Physico-chemical Models.- I. The Main Components.- II. Minor Components.- E. Other Components of Salt Deposits.- 1. Boron.- 2. Iron.- 3. Salt Clays and Insoluble Residues.- F. Geological Conclusions and Problems.- 1. Normal and Altered Seawater.- 2. Rhythmic Bedding and Influxes.- 3. Temperature of Primary Precipitation.- 4. Redox Potential and Hydrogen Ion Concentrations.- 5. The Origin of the Metamorphic Solutions.- G. Review.- References.- Author and Subject Index.