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Salt tectonics
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<p>Salt tectonics, or halokinesis, or halotectonics, is concerned with the geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses of <a href="/facts/Evaporite/vNW8fcEy">evaporites</a> containing <a href="/facts/Rock_salt/9xEEKKT8">rock salt</a> within a <a href="/facts/Stratigraphy/o3J6Ij3R">stratigraphic</a> sequence of rocks. This is due both to the low <a href="/facts/Density/92p6hh9I">density</a> of salt, which does not increase with burial, and its low strength. </p><p>Salt structures (excluding undeformed layers of salt) have been found in more than 120 <a href="/facts/Sedimentary_basin/dVkfKMrB">sedimentary basins</a> around the world. </p>