The peculiarities of high-magnesium clay minerals occurrence in phanerozoic evaporite formations
The aim of the study is to unravel the high-magnesium clay minerals occurrence in the Phanerozoic marine evaporite deposits and to find a correlation of magnesium clay minerals distribution with other cyclic processes in the Earth’s history, primarily, with changes in seawater chemistry during the Phanerozoic history of the Earth. The methodology consists of summarizing published data about clay minerals associations of the World’s Phanerozoic marine evaporite formations.