Integrated Salt Systems Research
Considering the growing importance of salt in the energy, food and waste disposal industries, this presentation reviews the status quo and major developments in geoscience salt research over the last decade. The point will be made for an integrated and multi-scale effort to better understand evaporite systems as a whole. New concepts for (i) the initiation dynamics of halokinesis, (ii) the rheology and mechanics of evaporites by brittle and ductile processes, (iii) the coupling of processes in the evaporites and the under- and overburden, and (iv) the impact of the layered evaporite rheology on the structural evolution provide new insights into salt systems. This includes the dependencies of thermal and (geo-)mechanical properties on changes in strain, pressure and temperature or external and internal evaporite geometries. Examples shown in the presentation stem from salt provinces in the Central European Basin System, Oman and the South Atlantic offshore basins.
https://www.munich-geocenter.org/events/seminars/frontiers-in-earth-sciences-18/integrated-salt-systems-research
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Integrated Salt Systems Research
Speaker
Prof. P. Kukla
(
Energy & Mineral Resources Group, RWTH Aachen University)
Abstract
Considering the growing importance of salt in the energy, food and waste disposal industries, this presentation reviews the status quo and major developments in geoscience salt research over the last decade. The point will be made for an integrated and multi-scale effort to better understand evaporite systems as a whole. New concepts for (i) the initiation dynamics of halokinesis, (ii) the rheology and mechanics of evaporites by brittle and ductile processes, (iii) the coupling of processes in the evaporites and the under- and overburden, and (iv) the impact of the layered evaporite rheology on the structural evolution provide new insights into salt systems. This includes the dependencies of thermal and (geo-)mechanical properties on changes in strain, pressure and temperature or external and internal evaporite geometries. Examples shown in the presentation stem from salt provinces in the Central European Basin System, Oman and the South Atlantic offshore basins.
