himalayan salt lamps come from khewra salt mine.
himalayan salt lamps come from khewra salt mine.
where do the himalayan salt lamps come from?
khewra salt mine
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himalayan salt is mined from the salt range mountains, the southern edge of a fold-and-thrust belt that underlies the pothohar plateau south of the himalayas. himalayan salt comes from a highly folded, faulted, and stretched thick layer of ediacaran to early cambrian evaporites of the "salt range formation". this geological formation consists of crystalline halite intercalated with potash salts, overlayed by gypsiferous marl and interlayered with beds of gypsum and dolomite with infrequent seams of oil shale. these strata and the overlying cambrian to eocene sedimentary rocks have been thrust southward over younger sedimentary rocks and eroded to create the salt range. although himalayan salt is sometimes marketed as "jurassic sea salt", this salt precipitated in subsiding rift basins along the edge of gondwanaland much earlier, between 600 and 540 million years ago. the jurassic period took place 145 to 199 million years ago.
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