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When Two Salt Tectonics Systems Meet: Gliding Downslope the Levant Margin and Salt Out‐Squeezing From Under the Nile Delta

Tectonics, 2020
At present, salt tectonics in the Levant Basin comprises extension along the continental slope and folding and thrusting in the deep basin. However, here we show that the shape, the age, and the amplitude of deformation in the extensional and ...
Y. Ben Zeev, Zohar Gvirtzman
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Salt tectonics in a double salt‐source layer setting (Eastern Persian Gulf, Iran): Insights from interpretation of seismic profiles and sequential cross‐section restoration

Basin Research, 2020
Salt tectonics in the Eastern Persian Gulf (Iran) is linked to a unique salt‐bearing system involving two overlapping ‘autochthonous’ mobile source layers, the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian Hormuz Salt and the Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Fars Salt ...
J. Hassanpour, A. Yassaghi, J. Muñoz, S. Jahani   +3 more
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Flip-flop salt tectonics

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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Salt tectonics in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Where a giant delta meets a salt giant

, 2020
The circum-Nile deformation belt (CNDB) demonstrates the interaction between a giant delta and a giant salt body. The semi-radial shape of the CNDB is commonly interpreted as the product of salt squeezing out from under the Nile Delta.
E. Zucker, Zohar Gvirtzman, J. Steinberg, Y. Enzel   +3 more
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Subsidence analysis of salt tectonics‐driven carbonate minibasins (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

Basin Research, 2020
Subsidence analysis study for several Triassic carbonate platforms from the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps shows that salt expulsion allowed for the growth of thick isolated depocentres (>1.5 km) at rates faster than those tectonic subsidence alone can
P. Strauss, P. Granado, J. Muñoz
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A review of allochthonous salt tectonics in the Flinders and Willouran ranges, South Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020
The Flinders and Willouran ranges of South Australia contain over 20 examples of exposed allochthonous salt sheets and canopies comprising the Callanna Group megabreccias.
M. Rowan, Thomas E. Hearon IV, R. Kernen, K. Giles, C. E. Gannaway-Dalton, N. Williams, J. C. Fiduk, T. Lawton, P. T. Hannah, M. Fischer   +9 more
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Salt tectonics off northern Israel

Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2005
The 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, Christian Hübscher, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Dirk Gajewski, Gesa Netzeband   +4 more
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Salt tectonics in the Sureste Basin, SE Mexico: some implications for hydrocarbon exploration

Special Publications, 2020
The Sureste Basin salt became diapiric soon after deposition in the Bajocian (169 Ma). Salt ridges and diapirs grew throughout the Jurassic–Cretaceous.
I. Davison
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Compressional salt tectonics (Angolan margin)

Tectonophysics, 2004
Abstract 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

2023
The 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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