SALT 



ITS DISTRIBUTION AND ORIGIN 



Common salt or chloride of sodium in a chemically pure 

 condition consists of chlorine 60.41$ and sodium 39.59$. It 

 occurs in great abundance on the earth both in a solid state 

 as halite or rock-salt and in solution in sea water and brine. 

 As rock-salt it occurs in very large masses. It is found in- 

 terstratified with clay, shale and gypsum in large beds of 

 great extent and its distribution is almost world wide. It 

 occurs in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West 

 Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, 

 Michigan, Kansas, Utah, Nevada and California, in Canada 

 at Goderich and in South America at the foot of the Peruvian 

 and Bolivian Andes. In Europe it is abundant in the tertiary 

 formations north and south of the Carpathians, and in the 

 Spanish province of Catalonia. In the Triassic formation, 

 important beds of salt occur in England at Cheshire and in 

 Germany in Wurtemburg, Prussia, Saxony and at many 

 other points. It is also found in the Punjaub, in Algeria 

 and in Abyssinia. 



The following table of distribution is taken with some 

 modifications from Credner.* 



Geological formation Locality 



Recent Kirghiz steppes ; Arabia ; South America ; shores 



of Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake. 



Tertiary Cardona in Catalonia, Spain ; Wieliczka and 



Bochnia in Galicia; Siebenbiirgen ; Asia Minor 

 and Armenia; Rimini in Italy; Petit Arise, 

 Lotusiana. 



* Elemente der Geologie 6th Auflage p. 40 

 M29111 — F93 — 1500 



