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Evaporite Localities of the Great Basin: A Collector's Guidebook

A locality guidebook to halite, gypsum, and borate occurrences across the Great Basin's playas and dry lakes.

For: Collectors, Field Trip Leaders

Documents accessible evaporite localities from the Bonneville flats to Nevada playa margins: what forms where, seasonal timing for crust collecting, access and permission notes, and the heat-standard logistics every shadeless locality demands.

How to use this guidebook

Localities are grouped by basin, each with seasonal timing (late summer for crusts, after wet winters for desert roses), access notes, and the managing agency to call first. Pair each chapter with the relevant identification sheets and the heat standard — the guidebook assumes you have read both.

Related in the library

ARE Field Localities Working Group
Guidebook