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Alimtay

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Tajikistan

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CountryTajikistan
Location:69.432, 37.749
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Site typemineral occurrence
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCentral Asia Salt Basin
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitGaurdak Fm or equivalent
Salt structureAlimtay
Age
Mesozoic
Jurassic-Cretaceous
Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous
Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-Berriasian-Valanginian(?)
Minimum:Mesozoic-Cretaceous-Lower Cretaceous-Valanginian(?)
Maximum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Kimmeridgian
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Other minerals:
Notes:Three horizons of rock salt are reported to be enriched in sylvite.
Geologic map unit69.432, 37.749
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References

Bekker, Y.A., 1996, Tectonics of the Afghan-Tajik depression: Geotectonics, v. 30, no. 1, p. 64-70.
Sedletskiy, V.I., 1969, Potash salts of Central Asia: Lithology and Mineral Resources, v. 1969, no. 5, p. 625-633.
Vysotskiy, E.A., Garetskiy, R.G., and Kislik, V.Z., 1988, Kalienosnye basseiny mira [Potassium-bearing basins of the world]: Minsk, Izd. Nauka i Tekhnika, Byelorussian SSR, 387 p.