You are hiking in the desert in Namaqualand in South Africa and you notice an area covered

with white sedimentary deposits. You taste the deposits and they taste salty. This is most likely
an example of
a. an evaporite. d. a pyroclastic rock.
b. a metamorphic rock. e. a volcanic rock.
c. a detrital sedimentary rock.


A

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