Sentences with phrase «salty water evaporates»

Experiments and simulations by Marc Prat at the University of Toulouse in France and colleagues show how salty water evaporating from the pores in these materials leaves behind patches of salt crystals that grow into towers rather than a uniform film.

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There, gypsum crystals form from evaporating volcanic pools of salty, acidic water.

Mineral deposits left behind as Martian water evaporated include substances like hematite and jarosite, which indicate a once wet, acidic and salty waterscape.

The salty water pools into the fairly shallow ponds and the hot sun evaporates the water, allowing the salt to crystalize on the earth walls and floor.

Because surface water that evaporates leaves nearly all of its salt behind, the surface becomes saltier — and if it becomes more dense than the underlying water, it sinks, sometimes in great blobs that do not mix very well with underlying waters, just like Dan's cream.

Such a conveyor is needed because the Atlantic is saltier than the Pacific (water which evaporates from the Atlantic is carried by the trade winds across Central America to fall as rain in the Pacific).