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Salt Crystal Growth

What is it
It causes disintegration of rock when salt solution
seeps into the rock and evaporates leaving crystals.
Salt crystallization may also take place when
solutions decompose rocks (e.g. limestone and chalk)
to form salt solutions of sodium sulphate which can
expand by 300% or sodium carbonate of which the
moisture evaporates to form their respective salt
crystals.


Where does it happen
It normally happens in arid climates and coastal
areas where evaporation can take place particular in
pores, sedimentary rocks like limestone.
In the desert salts that are not removed collect in
inland drainage basins.