publication . Article . 2016

Submarine Salt Karst Terrains

Nico Augustin; Christopher Talbot;
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  • Published: 01 Jun 2016
  • Publisher: AIMS Press
Abstract
Karst terrains that develop in bodies of rock salt (taken as mainly of halite, NaCl) are special not only for developing in one of the most soluble of all rocks, but also for developing in one of the weakest rocks. Salt is so weak that many surface-piercing salt diapirs extrude slow fountains of salt that that gravity spread downslope over deserts on land and over sea floors. Salt fountains in the deserts of Iran are usually so dry that they flow at only a few cm/yr but the few rain storms a decade so soak and weaken them that they surge at dm/day for a few days. We illustrate the only case where the rates at which different parts of one of the many tens of suba...
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doi: 10.3934/geosci.2016.2.182
Subjects
free text keywords: salt, karst terrains, submarine, Gulf of Mexico, Red Sea, Geology, QE1-996.5, Geologi, Pelagic sediment, Clastic rock, Subaerial, Diapir, Karst, geography.geographical_feature_category, geography, Salt glacier, Geomorphology, Halite, engineering.material, engineering, Geochemistry
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