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Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics
Earth-Science Reviews, 2007Abstract Following common usage, we broaden the term “salt” to include all rock bodies composed primarily of halite (NaCl). Salt is mechanically weak and flows like a fluid, even at geologically rapid strain rates. Salt is also relatively incompressible so is less dense than most carbonates and all moderately to fully compacted siliciclastic rocks ...
Michael R. Hudec, Martin P.A. Jackson
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Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation
Geology, 2023Abstract Salt tectonics on passive margins are driven by sediment loading and gliding with minimal influence from basement-involved tectonics and is associated with variable and complex salt structures, such as minibasins and diapirs.
Leonardo M. Pichel +3 more
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2017
Salt tectonics is the study of how and why salt structures evolve and the three-dimensional forms that result. A fascinating branch of geology in itself, salt tectonics is also vitally important to the petroleum industry. Covering the entire scale from the microscopic to the continental, this textbook is an unrivalled consolidation of all topics ...
Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec
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Salt tectonics is the study of how and why salt structures evolve and the three-dimensional forms that result. A fascinating branch of geology in itself, salt tectonics is also vitally important to the petroleum industry. Covering the entire scale from the microscopic to the continental, this textbook is an unrivalled consolidation of all topics ...
Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2012
Abstract This paper describes a common type of salt wall found in extensional regimes which possess the characteristics: cover strata truncated against both flanks; an asymmetric appearance in cross-section caused by normal fault-related growth patterns; and at least one unconformity and onlap surface separating strata which are tilted in ...
David G. Quirk, Robin S. Pilcher
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Abstract This paper describes a common type of salt wall found in extensional regimes which possess the characteristics: cover strata truncated against both flanks; an asymmetric appearance in cross-section caused by normal fault-related growth patterns; and at least one unconformity and onlap surface separating strata which are tilted in ...
David G. Quirk, Robin S. Pilcher
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Salt tectonics off northern Israel
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2005The Messinian evaporites in the Eastern Mediterranean represent a world class site to study thin-skinned salt tectonic processes like gravity gliding or gravity spreading. In contrast to the Mesozoic evaporites in the Atlantic the related structures are just slightly overprinted by additional tectonic events. New high-resolution reflection seismic data
Sofie Gradmann +4 more
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Compressional salt tectonics (Angolan margin)
Tectonophysics, 2004Abstract We present an analysis of compressional deformation at the front of a gravity spreading system above salt using seismic data from the Angolan margin and laboratory experiments. The geological setting and structural zonation is briefly reviewed and illustrated with two cross sections parallel to the margin slope in the Kwanza Basin ...
Jean-Pierre Brun, Xavier Fort
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Interactions Between Salt Tectonics and Crustal Tectonics in The Mediterranean
2023The deposition during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC, 5.96 – 5.33 My) of a thick layer of evaporites and especially of a mobile halite unit has deeply influenced the architecture and evolution of the Mediterranean margins. The Mediterranean has characteristics that set it apart from most “classic” salt ...
Virginie Gaullier, Gaia Travan
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1995
Abstract The conceptual breakthroughs in understanding salt tectonics can be recognized by reviewing the history of salt tectonics, which divides naturally into three parts: the pioneering era, the fluid era, and the brittle era. The pioneering era (1856-1933) featured the search for a general hypothesis of salt diapirism,
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Abstract The conceptual breakthroughs in understanding salt tectonics can be recognized by reviewing the history of salt tectonics, which divides naturally into three parts: the pioneering era, the fluid era, and the brittle era. The pioneering era (1856-1933) featured the search for a general hypothesis of salt diapirism,
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1995
The conceptual breakthroughs in understanding salt tectonics can be recognized by reviewing the history of salt tectonics, which divides naturally into three parts: the pioneering era, the fluid era, and the brittle era. The pioneering era (1856-1933) featured the search for a general hypothesis of salt diapirism, initially dominated by bizarre ...
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The conceptual breakthroughs in understanding salt tectonics can be recognized by reviewing the history of salt tectonics, which divides naturally into three parts: the pioneering era, the fluid era, and the brittle era. The pioneering era (1856-1933) featured the search for a general hypothesis of salt diapirism, initially dominated by bizarre ...
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3D Numerical Modelling of Salt Tectonics
Proceedings, 2017Summary Many factors have been suggested to affect the development of salt structures, including sedimentation, brittle sediment deformation, multiple tectonic events and basement topography. To unravel the relative importance of these processes, we performed high resolution 2D and 3D thermo-mechanical simulations that take these factors into account ...
Baumann, T.S. +2 more
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