Salt Tectonics in Sedimentary Basins: Applications in Earth Sciences, Basin Analysis, Petroleum and Mineral Exploration

Salt Tectonics in Sedimentary Basins: Applications to Earth Sciences, Basin Analysis, Petroleum, and Mineral Exploration provides a broad understanding of evaporite deposition and salt tectonics for earth scientists, basin analysis, petroleum, and mineral exploration. It covers mineralogy, chemical and physical properties, depositional environments, and petroleum plays in salt basins worldwide.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2022
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Salt Tectonics in Sedimentary Basins: Applications to Earth Sciences, Basin Analysis, Petroleum, and Mineral Exploration is a comprehensive guide aimed at introducing the subject to a broad audience of earth scientists who are not specialists in salt tectonics but wish to acquire a broad, global knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of evaporite deposition and salt tectonics as applied to earth sciences, basin analysis, petroleum, and mineral exploration. The scope of this volume is to start from basic chemistry and physics principles, discussing the mineralogy and fundamental chemical and physical properties of evaporites, and then advance to the analysis of depositional environments in sedimentary basins worldwide where evaporites have been deposited in geological time.

Volume highlights include:
- Objectives and contents that can fulfill the need of many earth science students and professionals, focusing on understanding basic salt tectonics principles in sedimentary basins worldwide and presenting their application to the petroleum industry.
- Concepts about evaporite deposition and salt tectonics that have been developed in the past 50 years, paving the way for petroleum exploration in deep water provinces in many salt basins worldwide, such as the South Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mediterranean Sea.
- Integration of classic salt basins, geological and geophysical datasets, and their petroleum plays with plate tectonics concepts.

Salt Tectonics in Sedimentary Basins is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, particularly young professionals working on basin analysis applied to petroleum exploration studies in Atlantic-type sedimentary basins.

Weight: 666g
ISBN-13: 9781119405214