Salado Formation

Salado Formation

▪ geological formation, Texas, United States
      evaporite deposit that occurs in the region of the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas, U.S., and is a major world source for potassium salts. In the Delaware Basin it reaches a maximum thickness of about 2,400 feet (720 metres).

      The Salado Formation is a division of the Ochoan Stage of the Upper Permian Series of rock strata (formed from 256 to 248 million years ago). It overlies the Castile Formation and is found beneath the Rustler Formation. The Salado evaporites are halite with interbedded lenses of potash salts such as sylvite, carnallite, and polyhalite. The formation was named for Salado (Spanish: “salty”) Wash in Loving county, Texas, where exposures of the formation were found.

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