Sessions

What are salt

Salt properties Mechanics of salt and other evaporites Salt dissolution

Evaporitic periods in Earth History

Layered evaporite sequences Allochthonous salt tectonics Salt sheet initiation and emplacement sheets and canopies

Salt basins in the world

Tectonic settings What is thick skin tectonics What is thin skin tectonics Passive margins Gravity driven deformation Extensional domains diapir initiation Diapir reactivation Contractional domain shortening salt tectonics in Strike-slip environment

Gravity driven tectonics vs Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities

Diapirism Vertical salt tectonics Salt movement triggered by differential loading Growth fault rollover systems Turtle structures and

Salt and petroleum systems

Trap formation and timing Reservoir deposition and facies Hydrocarbon maturation and migration Shale Tectonics Slumps and landslides