Increasing salt production and use is shifting the natural balances of salt ions across Earth
systems, causing interrelated effects across biophysical systems collectively known as …

The emerging picture of prehistoric Arabia suggests that early modern humans were able to
survive periodic hyperarid oscillations by contracting into environmental refugia around the …

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 …

The parabolic surface profiles of the Hormuz and Namakdan salt diapirs in the Persian Gulf
suggest that they have been extruding with Newtonian viscous rheologies for the last 104 …

The Qatar–South Fars Arch is a major regional anticline that runs through the central
Persian Gulf (figure 1), warping the sedimentary cover of the Arabian Platform. The structure …

Salt diapirs in southern Iran provide excellent exposures of the host rock sedimentary
sequences that record salt diapiric growth in compressional settings. This study addresses …

Ice (H20) and salt (halite, NaCl) share many physical properties and resemble each other in
hand specimens and subaerial gravity-driven flows. However, while most significant bodies …

Two iconic salt diapirs in the Zagros Mountains in Iran–Karmostaj (Gach) and Siah Taq–are
regarded as world-class examples of salt extrusions and are frequently called" salt glaciers" …

Salt can be partially removed by viscous flow from between wall rocks to form a salt weld.
Welds in autochthonous and allochthonous salt can form significant structures in evaporite …

Microstructural study of rocksalt samples from an active salt fountain (Qum Kuh, central Iran)
enabled to identify the relative contribution of different deformation mechanisms on extrusive …