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Berrichid

mixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Morocco

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CountryMorocco
Location:-7.4333, 33.25
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Site typebasin
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinDoukkala-Berrichid
Basin typemarine rift basin
Geologic unitLower Salt Fm
Age
Mesozoic
Triassic-Jurassic
Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic
Minimum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Lower Jurassic
Maximum:Mesozoic-Triassic-Upper Triassic
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Notes:Carnallite does not form a discrete horizon; salt is 500 m thick.
Geologic map unit-7.4333, 33.25
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References

Arab Organisation for Mineral Resources, 1987, Mineral deposit map of the Arab world; Explanatory notes and maps: Rabat, Morocco, Arab Organisation for Mineral Resources, 430 p.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Van Kauwenbergh, S.J., 2006, Fertilizer raw material resources of Africa: Muscle Shoals, AL, USA, IFDC, 435 p.
Veselinovic-Williams, M., and Frost-Killian, S., 2003, Digital international metallogenic map of Africa: Council for Geoscience, South Africa and Commission for the Geologic Map of the World (CGMW), scale 1:5,000,000, CD-ROM.