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Dynamic Controls on Salt Structures and Translation Velocity at Continental Rifted Margins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Salt tectonics at rifted margins involves intricate interactions between weak, viscous evaporite layers and brittle sedimentary rocks. Geophysical data and geological interpretation offer valuable insights into evaporite structure formation and the average translation rate of evaporite and sediment layers on time scales of several million ...
Zhichen Wang, Sascha Brune, Derek Neuharth, Anne C. Glerum, Delphine Rouby, Naiara Fernandez, Xuesong Ding   +6 more
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Cenozoic Evolution of the North‐Eastern Mediterranean Basins

Tectonics, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean lies at the junction of the African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates, a region shaped by a long and complex tectonic history. While the Levant Basin in the southern sector has been extensively studied for hydrocarbon exploration, the northern domain offshore Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon remains less understood.
Nicolò Bertone, Lorenzo Bonini, Anna Del Ben, Giuseppe Brancatelli, Angelo Camerlenghi, Edy Forlin, Gian Andrea Pini   +6 more
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Geophysical Insights Into 3D Crustal Architecture of Jurassic Magmatic Intrusions in the Moroccan Atlas

Earth and Space Science, Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Magmatic intrusions in rifted continental margins play a critical role in shaping structural evolution, yet their geometry and emplacement mechanisms remain poorly constrained in salt‐influenced terrains. The Moroccan Central High Atlas, a segment of the Atlas fold‐and‐thrust belt, hosts extensive Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous intrusions
Naheem Banji Salawu, Ahmed Oussou, Kamaldeen Olakunle L. Omosanya, Shigekazu Kusumoto, Driss Ouarhache, Khadija Boumir   +5 more
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Interplay Between Salt Tectonics and a Large Igneous Province in the Espírito Santo Basin (Brazil)

Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract Salt tectonics provinces host numerous resources and are now targeted as potential areas of development for energy storage capacities such as underground storage in salt caverns. Sedimentary basins containing salt structures are common at passive margins where volcanic rocks, emplaced either during the lithospheric breakup or the post‐rift ...
Naïm A. Celini, Charlie Kergaravat
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Shale Tectonics in the Hyperextended Continental Margin of the Niger Delta

Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 7, July 2025.
Abstract Based on the interpretation of a large seismic data set, we provide a comprehensive description of the structures affecting the entire Niger Delta, from the onshore domain to the deep‐offshore. The shale‐dominated delta lies on a divergent segment of the west African passive margin.
V. Spina, J. I. Soto, J.‐C. Ringenbach, S. Mazzoli   +3 more
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Petrochronology of Alkaline Intrusive Magmatism in the Central High‐Atlas (Morocco) and Relationships With Jurassic Salt Diapirism

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 6, June 2025.
Abstract A striking feature of the Imilchil alkaline province, in the Moroccan Central High Atlas, is the close association of magmatic intrusions with Triassic sediments exhumed by diapirism. This study reports field, petrographic, geochemical and Sr‐Nd isotopic data, as well as new U‐Pb zircon ages, which allow us to constrain the timing of the ...
Youssef Ahechach, Muhammad Ouabid, Françoise Roger, Fleurice Parat, Otmane Raji, Jean‐Marie Dautria, Valérie Bosse, Cheikh Elwali Malainine, Hicham El Messbahi, Hamza Skikra, Jean‐Louis Bodinier   +10 more
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Salt Diapirs and Minibasins Along a Transect Across the Basque‐Cantabrian Pyrenees: Implications for Cover‐Basement Interaction During Rifting and Inversion

Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 5, May 2025.
Abstract The Basque‐Cantabrian Pyrenees experienced Early Cretaceous rifting and latest Cretaceous to Cenozoic inversion, with the presence of prerift Upper Triassic Keuper salt influencing how deformation was accommodated. Considerable disagreement exists on the degree of decoupling of supra‐ and subsalt deformation, the amount of thin‐skinned ...
Mark G. Rowan, Josep Anton Muñoz, Eduard Roca, Eloi Carola, Rodolfo Uranga, Iñaki Garcia, Oriol Ferrer   +6 more
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Pockmark Occurrence in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Influenced by Glacial Cycles and Hydrate Stability

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract On the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico, pockmarks concentrate near the estimated updip edge of the hydrate stability zone (HSZ). We identified 5,691 pockmarks in the northern Gulf of Mexico by combining existing records with manually mapped pockmarks from bathymetric data.
A. Kumar, A. E. Cook, M. A. Lawal, A. Portnov, V. Lecours   +4 more
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An Albian‐Cenomanian Salt Canopy and Secondary Minibasins in the Sub‐Alpine Fold and Thrust Belt of Haute Provence, France

Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 3, March 2025.
Abstract Allochthonous salt is common on passive margins and although present in some onshore fold and thrust belts, only a few examples of salt canopies and associated secondary minibasins are known in this tectonic setting. The Subalpine chains of Haute Provence contain Triassic evaporites and have been studied for over 100 years but the importance ...
Lajos Adam Csicsek, Samuel Brooke‐Barnett, Rodney Graham, Lidia Lonergan   +3 more
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Late Jurassic Initial Development of a Salt‐Dominated Fold‐And‐Thrust Belt: The Inverted Passive Margin of the Eastern Alps (Austria)

Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The Northern Calcareous Alps (Eastern Alps, Austria) represent a well‐preserved example of the early stages of inversion of a salt‐bearing passive margin, which occurred in a fully submarine setting. Late Jurassic shortening led to widespread thrusting and folding that nucleated preferentially, although not exclusively, along salt structures ...
O. Fernandez, H. Ortner, W. E. H. Munday, M. Moser, D. Sanders, B. Grasemann, T. Leitner   +6 more
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