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Doukkala

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

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CountryMorocco
Location:-8.8536, 32.5993
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Site typebasin
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinDoukkala
Basin typemarine rift basin
Age
Mesozoic
Triassic-Jurassic
Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic
Minimum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Lower Jurassic
Maximum:Mesozoic-Triassic-Upper Triassic
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Other minerals:
Notes:Sylvite layer at base of Upper Salt is erratic; max of 6 percent K2O; lower salt has carnallite horizon at 900-1000 m depth; salt is 500 m thick.
Geologic map unit-8.8536, 32.5993
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References

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.