Thermobaric Depth Settings of Sedimentary Rock Basins and Their Fluid Dynamics: Communication 3. Superhigh Pressures in the Stratisphere and Salt Diapirs

The paper addresses regularities in the location and conditions of the formation of salt diapirs. Their formation is attributed to a thick salt “cover” characterized by the generation of superhigh pressures owing to phase transformations in closed physicochemical systems. Such transformations are re...

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Published inLithology and Mineral Resources Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 103 - 118
Main Author Kholodov, V. N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.03.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Basins
Communication
Diapirs
Earth
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earth surface
Fluid dynamics
Fractures
Geological faults
Hydrodynamics
Mineral Resources
Mineralogy
Mud volcanoes
Orogeny
Phase transitions
Salts
Sedimentary basins
Sedimentary rocks
Sedimentology
Tectonics
Volcanoes
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Summary:The paper addresses regularities in the location and conditions of the formation of salt diapirs. Their formation is attributed to a thick salt “cover” characterized by the generation of superhigh pressures owing to phase transformations in closed physicochemical systems. Such transformations are responsible for the flow of salts and their injection along tectonic fractures and faults toward the Earth surface. Similarity of the formation scenario of salt diapirs and mud volcanoes is emphasized. Influence of superhigh pressures on the autonomous orogeny of the sedimentary cover is inferred.
ISSN:0024-4902
1608-3229
1573-8892
DOI:10.1134/S0024490219020032