EMODnet Geology WP7 Marine Minerals Evaporites (Area)
Marine Evaporites areas
Short description
Evaporites are crystalline sedimentary rocks that form by the evaporation of natural brines. Having complex mineralogy, there are many varieties of evaporites; the most economically important minerals include: calcite, gypsum, anhydrite, halite, polyhalite, sylvite, carnallite, kainite, kieserite and anhydrite. Although evaporite deposits formed in ancient marine basins are extensive on land, many of these also extend beneath the sea, not only beneath the continental shelves but also under some marginal ocean basins. Present day occurrences of subsea anhydrite, potash and magnesium evaporite deposits have been described along the margins of the Mediterranean Sea as well as in the North Sea and West Baltic Sea.
Point of contact
Geological Survey Ireland
EMODnet Geology WP7 Marine Minerals
charise.mckeon@gsi.ie
+353-1-6782000
+353-1-6783209
Beggars Bush
Haddington Road
Dublin 4
D04 K7X4
Ireland
Resource constraints
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Spatial extent
['-9.273741', '14.317729', '48.259446', '61.999623']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Keywords
Mineral resources ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ; GEMET INSPIRE ;


evaporite ; halite ; anhydrite ; gypsum ; potash ; polyhalite ; Miocene ; Triassic ; geological ; marine ; sea ; seabed ; Dictionary.com ; (C) 2020 Dictionary.com, LLC ;


science ; earth science ; natural science ; geology ; marine geology ; petroleum geology ; GEneral Mulitlingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ; GEMET - Concepts ;


hydrosphere ; lithosphere ; EIONET - Concepts, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ; EIONET - Concepts ;


Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ; Geological Survey Ireland ; Geological Survey of Spain, IGME ; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover ; European Directory of Marine Organisations ; EDMO ;


Europe ; United Kingdom ; Northern Ireland ; Germany ; North Channel ; Helgolander Bucht ; Kierler Bucht ; Lubecker Bucht ; Fehmarnbelt ; GeoNames Geographical Database ; GeoNames ;


Atlantic Ocean ; North Atlantic Ocean ; North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) ; Irish Sea and St. George's Channel ; Celtic Sea ; Bristol Channel ; North Sea ; Baltic Sea ; Bay of Biscay ; Mediterranean Sea ; English Channel ; Norwegian Sea ; SeaDataNet sea areas ; SDN sea areas C16 based on IHO 23-3rd: Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23, 3rd Edition 1953, published by the International Hydrographic Organization ;


Resource provider(s)
Geological Survey Ireland
+353-1-6782000
+353-1-6783209
https://www.gsi.ie
charise.mckeon@gsi.ie

Lineage
Data modeling used D2.8.III.21 Data Specification on Mineral resources - Technical Guidelines to generate data schema for evaporites data produced by EMODnet Geology WP7 Minerals. The INSPIRE MineralResourcesCore UML class diagam applied for the spatial data attributes includes the following feature types: MineralOccurrence, Mine, MiningActivity and MineralDepositModel.