Salt tectonics, or halokinesis, or halotectonics, is concerned with the geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses...

of tectonic elements which define the subdivision into numerous smaller microplates which have amalgamated into the larger Plates. Salt tectonics is concerned...

lake – Landlocked body of water which has a high concentration of salts Salt tectonics – Geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant...

geologist Ludovic Mrazek, who was the first to understand the principle of salt tectonics and plasticity. The term diapir may be applied to igneous intrusions...

developed since its deposition as salt movement deforms the surrounding bedrock. The driving force behind salt tectonics is thought to be extension governed...

Salt surface structures are extensions of salt tectonics that form at the Earth's surface when either diapirs or salt sheets pierce through the overlying...

Michael R.; Jackson, Martin P. A. (2007). "Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics". Earth-Science Reviews. 82 (1): 1–28. Bibcode:2007ESRv...82....1H....

made of halite from the western Dead Sea coast, Israel Coarse salt (edible) Salt tectonics Grozon coal and saltworks Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...

thin, which allows the salt body to travel upwards. Salt glaciers are a frequent topic in salt tectonics, which is the study of salt causing deformation...

Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust...

Thrust tectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and...

It has formed as a result of salt tectonics, due to the effects of loading of a thick layer of Jurassic halite (Louann Salt) by Upper Jurassic to Cenozoic...

dissolution of salts into bottom water through salt tectonics, and geothermal heating of brine at tectonic boundaries and hot spots. Brine rejection: When...

Zechstein supergroup which act as a salt cap for the fine grained sediment. During this era the end of extensional tectonics had been well constrained in the...

and kinematics of thrust tectonics as derived from palaeomagnetic data: an example from the Southern Pyrenees, Thrust Tectonics, Springer, Dordrecht, pp...

subsidence of an area of coastal plain relative to sea level caused by salt tectonics, global sea-level rise, growth faulting, continental margin collapse...

The formation is notable both for its petroleum resources and for its salt tectonics, which are responsible for many distinctive geologic features of the...

Institut für Geophysik, Universität Hamburg, Germany, and others of the salt tectonics and mud volcanism within the Cyprus Basin, eastern Mediterranean Sea...

(1988). "Mechanics of the Salt Range-Potwar Plateau, Pakistan: A fold-and-thrust belt underlain by evaporites". Tectonics. 7 (1): 57–71. Bibcode:1988Tecto...

Lake, (Jammu and Kashmir, India) with Special Emphasis on its Climate & Tectonics". The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses....

Geological Society of London lecture series, "Terra Infirma: What has salt tectonics ever done for us?" In 2020 he was appointed to the Chair in Sustainable...

by the wind from its source areas to depositional environments where tectonics has created accommodation space for sediments to accumulate. Forearc basins...

result of the thick salt sequences and the fact that salt is ductile at relatively low temperatures and pressures, salt tectonics play a major role in...

size of a basin depend on tectonics, movements within the Earth's lithosphere. Where the lithosphere moves upward (tectonic uplift), land eventually rises...

bed into seawater. The basin owes its shape to ongoing salt tectonics and is surrounded by salt diapirs. Gas hydrates were detected in a number of cores...

resin bed. Brine draw: Water is directed through a jet pump, which pulls salt water from the brine tank, before the water and brine pass through the resin...

The salt tectonics off the Louisiana gulf coast can be explained through two possible methods. The first method attributes spreading of the salt because...

regression transgression Pelagic turbidite contourite hemipelagite Salt tectonics Sedimentary basin Tidal bundle Biogenous sediments Calcareous ooze biogenic...

surface structures Salt glacier Salt tectonics Hudec, Michael R.; Jackson, Martin P.A. (May 2007). "Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics". Earth-Science...

satellite Ocean – Body of salt water covering most of Earth Plate tectonics – Movement of Earth's lithosphere List of tectonic plate interactions – Types...