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Also Known As	salt deposit • evaporite deposit

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marine evaporite deposition

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sedimentary rock: Evaporites

Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.

(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones