Salt tectonics
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Salt tectonics, or halokinesis, or halotectonics, is concerned with the geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses of evaporites containing rock salt within a stratigraphic sequence of rocks. This is due both to the low density of salt, which does not increase with burial, and its low strength.
Geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses of evaporites
Salt structures (excluding undeformed layers of salt) have been found in more than 120 sedimentary basins around the world.[1]