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Why do large masses of the evaporite sedimentary rocks exist in silurian rocks in western ny but are not forming there today?
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Coming out of the late Ordovician extinction due to large landmasses at the South Pole, the Silurian was a period of a warming environment, likely with large arid areas with high evaporation rates. Maybe look at Silurian paleogeography to get a better idea of what was going on to allow this.
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