adjective. Containing or yielding salt.

In geology, noting a formation containing a considerable amount of rocksalt, or yielding brine in economically valuable quantity. Saliferous beds are found in almost all the divisions of the geological series, from the lowest to the highest.

Bearing or containing salt: said of plants that grow in saline soil.

adjective. Producing, or impregnated with, salt.

adjective. the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

adjective. Yielding or containing salt; saliniferous

adjective. containing or yielding salt

"The appearance of the country was remarkable, from being covered by a thick crust of common salt, and of a stratified saliferous alluvium, which seems to have been deposited as the land slowly rose above the level of the sea."

saliferous system  

salty