muriatiferous

It is the ancient gypsum of secondary formation of Werner's school (alterer flozgyps), which we almost preferably call muriatiferous gypsum.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

It is the ancient gypsum of secondary formation of Werner’s school (alterer flozgyps), which we almost preferably call muriatiferous gypsum.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is questioned here, as at Cumana, whether the ground be impregnated with saline particles because it has been for ages covered at intervals with sea-water evaporated by the heat of the sun, or whether the soil be muriatiferous, as in a mine very poor in native salt.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

To class it according to the type of European formations I would range it among the gypsums, often muriatiferous, that cover the Alpine limestone or zechstein.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The muriatiferous gypsum, * whether it be found in layers in the Jura or Alpine limestone, or whether it separate these two formations, or lie between the Alpine limestone and argillaceous sandstone, also presents, on account of its great solubility, enormous cavities, sometimes communicating with each other at several leagues distance.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

When we were yet unacquainted with sulphur, except as disseminated in the muriatiferous gypsum and in the Alpine limestone, we were almost forced to the belief, that in every part of the globe the volcanic fire acted on rocks of secondary formation; but recent observations have proved that sulphur exists in great abundance in those primitive rocks which so many phenomena indicate as the centre of the volcanic action.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Horned cattle prosper here without those famous bareros, or muriatiferous lands, which abound in the Pampas of

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is true, that for the new salt-work near the battery of Araya, the seawater is received into pits, as in the salt marshes of the south of France; but in the island of Margareta, near Pampatar, salt is manufactured by employing only fresh water, with which the muriatiferous clay has first been lixiviated.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It abounds in common clay, which differs essentially from the salzthon or muriatiferous clay.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

We shall not question, that sal-gem, either pure or mixed with muriatiferous clay, may have been deposited by an ancient sea; but everything evinces that it was formed during an order of things bearing no resemblance to that in which the sea at present, by a slower operation, deposits a few particles of muriate of soda on the sands of our shores.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851