saliferous formations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : saliferous strata. From Dictionary.com.
I find since that Dr Wilson states these rocks to be highly saliferous, and says the Arabs scrape them with knives to obtain saltpetre for making their rude gunpowder. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
The appearance of the country was remarkable, from being covered by a thick crust of common salt, and of a stratified saliferous alluvium, which seems to have been deposited as the land slowly rose above the level of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
From any part of the salt tract one may see the boundary of the inner arable part of the district fringed with long lines of trees, from which every morning the villagers drive their cattle out into the saliferous plains to graze. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
The bottom of Ontario is unquestionably salt, and no wonder that it should be so, for all the Canadian lakes were once a sea, and the geological formation of the bed of Ontario is the saliferous rock. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference
According to the opinions now most generally received, the rock of the Penas Negras may be considered as representing muschelkalk (limestone of Gottingen); and the saliferous and bituminous clay of Araya, as representing variegated sandstone; but these problems can only be solved when the mines of those countries are worked. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
(limestone of Gottingen); and the saliferous and bituminous clay of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
60 million hectares of saliferous planet, and a new desert creeps toward. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
The plain is saliferous. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Origin of saliferous deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference
Danazol chrysomalline saliferous intensification plasmajet http://www.chonburi108.com/news/publicrelations.asp?. From Wordnik.com. [Top Information about Home Management] Reference
"Origin of saliferous deposits. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 367. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
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