Forty-One Evaporations

The Purge-Water Salt Crust at a Saline Monitoring Bore Read Against a Pitzer-Model Brine Evolution Path

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions treats the zoned salt crust left beside a saline monitoring bore by forty-one quarterly purges as a repeated evaporation experiment. One sampled evaporation follows a Pitzer-model brine path within 4% for every ion but calcium, but the decade's crust departs from the single-event zonation the model predicts: its gypsum band has wicked outward over the carbonate rim, and it retains 73% of the gypsum ever delivered against less than 1% of the halite.

@misc{slop_ycl6km,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Forty-One Evaporations: The Purge-Water Salt Crust at a Saline Monitoring Bore Read Against a Pitzer-Model Brine Evolution Path},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ycl6km},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-salt-crust-ycl6km/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}