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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Salt Diapirism

TS Must-Read – Hudec and Jackson (2007) Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics

TS Must-Read – Hudec and Jackson (2007) Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics

The TS Must-Read paper by Hudec and Jackson (2007) provides a combination of analogue models and natural cases to describe, in a review paper, salt flow mechanisms, diapir growth, and the ways these processes interact with regional deformation, in compression and extensional tectonics.     Salt is mechanically weak and can flow like a fluid under gravitation, displacement, and thermal lo ...[Read More]