SaltAges Library

SaltAges library - useful papers on salt giants

Evaporites formation and sedimentology

• Briggs, 1958. Evaporite facies. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 28(1), 46–56.

• Evans, 1978. Origin and significance of evaporites in basins around Atlantic margin. AAPG Bulletin, 62(2), 223–234.

• Gordon, 1975. Distribution by latitude of Phanerozoic evaporite deposits. The Journal of Geology, 83(6), 671–684.

• Holser, 1979. Mineralogy of evaporites. Marine minerals, 6, 211–294.

• Hovland et al., 2018. Large salt accumulations as a consequence of hydrothermal processes associated with ‘Wilson cycles’. Mar Petrol Geol 92, 987–1009. 

• Kendali, 1988. Aspects of evaporite basin stratigraphy. In Evaporites and hydrocarbons (pp. 11-65). Columbia University Press.

• Kirkland, Evans, 1981. Source-rock potential of evaporitic environment. AAPG bulletin, 65(2), 181–190.

• Renema et al., 2008. Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity. Science 321, 654–657.  

• Sarg, 2001. The sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, and economic importance of evaporite–carbonate transitions: a review. Sedimentary Geology, 140(1-2), 9–34.

• Scribano et al., 2017. Origin of salt giants in abyssal serpentinite systems. Intern J Earth Sci 106, 2595–2608. 

• Scruton, 1953. Deposition of evaporites. AAPG Bulletin, 37(11), 2498–2512.

• Smith et al., 2020. Impacts of basin restriction on geochemistry and extinction patterns: A case from the Guadalupian Delaware Basin, USA. EPSL 530, 115876. 

• Qin et al., 2020. Large Evaporite Provinces: Geothermal rather than Solar Origin? doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-80284/v2 

• Warren, 1996. Evaporites, brines and base metals: what is an evaporite? Defining the rock matrix. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43(2), 115–132.

• Warren, 2010. Evaporites through time: tectonic, climatic andeustatic controls in marine and non-marine deposits. Earth-Sci Rev 98, 217–268. 

Salt and humans

• Adshead, 1992. Salt and Civilization; Canterbury University Press.

• Bloch, 1976. Salt in Human History. Interdisc Sci Rev 1(4), 336–352. 

• Gavrieli, Oren, 2004. The Dead Sea as a dying lake. Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes. Springer Netherlands, p. 287–305. 

• Harding, 2013. Salt in Prehistoric Europe. Sidestone Press; Leiden. 

• Joardder et al., 2019. A brief history of food preservation. Food Preservation in Developing Countries. Chall  Solut 57–66. 

• Laranjo et al., 2019. The Role of Salt on Food and Human Health. Chapter in Salt in the Earth. 

• Leshem, 2009. Biobehavior of the human love of salt. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 33(1), 1–17. 

• Oleksa et al., 2023. Effectiveness of the salt therapy–current knowledge status. J Edu Health Sport 13(1), 51–55. 

• Weller, 2015. First salt making in Europe: an overview from Neolithic times. Docum Praehist XLII, 185–196. 

Salt mining and energy

• Aftab et al., 2023. Quantifying onshore salt deposits and their potential for hydrogen energy storage in Australia. J Energy Stor 65(15), 107252. 

• Allsop et al., 2023. Utilizing publicly available datasets for identifying offshore salt strata and developing salt  caverns for hydrogen storage. GSL Sp Publ 528(1), SP528-2022. 

• Caglayan et al., 2020. Technical potential of salt caverns for hydrogen storage in Europe. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45(11), 6793-6805.

• Duffy et al., 2023. The role of salt tectonics in the energy transition: An overview and future challenges. Tektonika, 1(1).

• llankof et al., 2022. Assessment of the potential for underground hydrogen storage in salt domes. Renew Sust Energy Rev 160, 112309. 

• Jeremic, 1994. Rock Mechanics in Salt Mining. CRC Press, 544 pp. 

• Marazuela et al., 2020. Towards more sustainable brine extraction in salt flats: learning from the Salar de Atacama. Sci Total Env 703, 135605. 

• Tarkowski, Czapowski, 2018. Salt domes in Poland–Potential sites for hydrogen storage in caverns. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(46), 21414-21427.

• Zhang et al., 2022. Large-scale CO2 disposal/storage in bedded rock salt caverns of China: An evaluation of safety and suitability. Energy 249, 123727. 

Brines - chemistry and dissolution

• Anderson, Kirkland, 1980. Dissolution of salt deposits by brine density flow. Geology, 8(2), 66–69.

• Ayora et al., 2001. Brine-mineral reactions in evaporite basins: Implications for the composition of ancient oceans. Geology, 29(3), 251–254.

• Border, Sawyer, 2014. Evaporites and brines–geological, hydrological and chemical aspects of resource estimation. Applied Earth Science, 123(2), 95–106.

• Carpenter, 1978. Origin and chemical evolution of brines in sedimentary basins. In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition? (pp. SPE-7504). SPE.

• Chi, Savard,1997. Sources of basinal and Mississippi Valley-type mineralizing brines: mixing of evaporated seawater and halite-dissolution brine. Chemical Geology, 143(3-4), 121–125.

• González-Esvertit et al., 2024. Fluid evolution and halogen fractionation in orogenic belts: A comparative fluid inclusion appraisal in the Eastern Pyrenees. Chemical Geology, 122578.

• Warren, Warren, 2016. Salt dissolution and pointers to vanished evaporites: Karst, breccia, nodules and cement. Evaporites: A Geological Compendium, 613–761.

Salt tectonics and geohazards

• Brun, Fort, 2011. Salt tectonics at passive margins: Geology versus models. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28(6), 1123–1145.

• Davison et al., 1996). Salt tectonics: some aspects of deformation mechanics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100(1), 1–10.

• Hudec, Jackson, 2007. Terra infirma: Understanding salt tectonics. Earth-Science Reviews, 82(1-2), 1–28.

• Hudec, Jackson, 2012. De Re Salica: Fundamental principles of salt tectonics. Regional geology and tectonics: Phanerozoic passive margins, cratonic basins and global tectonic maps, 1, 19–41.

• Jackson, Hudec, 2017. Salt tectonics: Principles and practice. Cambridge University Press.

• laor, Gvirtzman, 2023. Classifying marine faults for hazard assessment offshore Israel. Nat Haz Earth Syst 

Sci 23, 139–158

• Lundin, 1992. Thin-skinned extensional tectonics on a salt detachment, northern Kwanza Basin, Angola. Mar Petr Geol 9(4), 405–411. 

• Rowan, 2014. Passive‐margin salt basins: Hyperextension, evaporite deposition, and salt tectonics. Basin Research, 26(1), 154–182.

• Rowan, 2017. An overview of allochthonous salt tectonics. Permo-Triassic salt provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic margins, 97–114.

• Vendeville et al., 1995. Scale models of salt tectonics during basement-involved extension. Petroleum Geoscience, 1(2), 179–183.

• Zucker et al., 2020. Salt tectonics in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: where a giant delta meets a salt giant. Geology 48(2), 134–138.

Paleoceanography and paleoclimate 

• Agiadi et al., 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian salinity crisis. Earth System Science Data 16(10):4767−4775.

• Aloisi et al., 2024. Chlorine isotopes constrain a major drawdown of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Nature Communications 15(1):9671.

• Bulian et al., 2022. Impact of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connectivity and the late Miocene carbon shift on deep-sea communities in the Western Alboran Basin. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 589, 110841.

• Butiseaca et al., 2022. Multiple crises preceded the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis: Aridification and vegetation changes revealed by biomarkers and stable isotopes. Global and Planetary Change 217 (2022) 103951.

• Garcia-Castellanos et al., 2009. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature, 462, 778−781.

• Herbert et al., 2016. Late Miocene global cooling and the rise of modern ecosystems. Nature Geoscience, 825 9, 843–847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO2813.  

• Hodell, Venz-Curtis, 2006. Late Neogene history of deep-water ventilation in the Southern Ocean. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 7(9). 

• Holbourn et al., 2018. Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon.  Nat Comm 9, 1584. 

• Hsü et al., 1973. Late Miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean Nature, 242 (5395), 240−244. 

• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Raffi, I., Sierro, F.J., Wilsonk, D.S., 1999. Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature, 400, 652−655. 

• Roveri et al., 2014. The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences.  Mar Geol 352, 25–58. 

• Vasiliev et al., 2017. How dry was the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis? Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 471, 120–133.

• Zachos, J., Pagani, H., Sloan, L., Thomas, E., Billups, K., 2001. Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present. Science 292, 686–693. 

Evaporites inventories / databases

• Caglayan et al., 2020. Technical potential of salt caverns for hydrogen storage in Europe. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45(11), 6793–6805.

• Escavy et al., 2012. Gypsum resources of Spain: Temporal and spatial distribution. Ore Geology Reviews, 49, 72–84.

• González-Esvertit et al., 2023. IESDB–the Iberian Evaporite Structure Database. Earth System Science Data, 15(7), 3131–3145.

• Orris et al., 2014. Potash: a global overview of evaporate-related potash resources, including spatial databases of deposits, occurrences, and permissive tracts. Scientific Investigations Report, (2010-5090-S).

• Tarkowski, Czapowski, 2018. Salt domes in Poland–Potential sites for hydrogen storage in caverns. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(46), 21414–21427.

Previous large research projects on salt giants

MedSalt COST Action (CA15103) : https://medsalt.wordpress.com

SaltGiant ETN (Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 765256). : https://www.saltgiant-etn.com