Salt in the Earth Sciences

Evaporite Rocks and Salt Deposition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-40521-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Gewicht: 666 g

A comprehensive review of salt deposition in sedimentary environments worldwide

Salt is formed when water rich in evaporite minerals accumulates on the Earth’s surface and then evaporates. Over time, pressure and tectonics change the structure and shape of salt layers. Recent technological advances have improved the interpretation and modeling of subsurface salt structures.

Salt in the Earth Sciences: Evaporite Rocks and Salt Deposition presents a global overview of salt deposition and deformation in sedimentary basins, synthesizing data analysis, observations, theories, and modeling.

Volume highlights include:

- Overview of salt use by humans from prehistoric times to the modern industrial world
- Chemical and physical principles of evaporite deposition in sedimentary basins
- Effects of gravity and tectonic forces on rock salt deformation
- Development of salt structures in orogenic belts and deep basins
- Seismic interpretation methods for identification of subsurface salt structures
- Key sedimentological models for evaporite deposition in continental and marine environments
- Global examples ranging from modern hypersaline rift lakes to ancient marine salt basins

Browse the other volume in this set, Salt in the Earth Sciences: Basin Analysis and Salt Tectonics.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohriak, Webster

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Stratigraphie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. A Brief History of Salt and Its Influence on Civilization

Part I Chemical and Physical Properties of Evaporite Rocks

2. Basic Scientific Concepts for the Interpretation of Evaporites

3. Salt Structures and Salt Outcrops  4. Evaporite Minerals in Salt Formations

5. Basic Chemical and Physical Properties of Evaporite Rocks  6. Rheology of Evaporite Rocks, Salt Deformation, and Fluid Flow  7. Mineral Analysis of Evaporite Rocks in Sedimentary Basins

Part II Salt Deposition in Different Sedimentary Environments  8. Salt Deposition Models and Sedimentary Environments  9. Saline Lakes and Salt Deposition in Extensional Settings  10. Saline Lakes in Convergent Settings  11. Evaporite Deposition in Lacustrine and Shallow Marine Carbonate Platform Environments  12. Genetic Models for Basinwide Evaporites

Über Autor(innen)

Webster Mohriak, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil