Origin and paleogeography of an immense, nonmarine miocene salt deposit in the basin and range (Western USA)

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• paleogeography 100%
• Miocene 69%
• halite 63%
• salt 61%
• basin 43%
• evaporite 35%
• Pliocene 29%
• listric fault 15%
• growth fault 14%
• geometry 14%
• playa 13%
• capping 13%
• diapir 13%
• bromine 13%
• drainage network 12%
• hanging wall 12%
• anhydrite 12%
• aridity 12%
• normal fault 10%
• graben 10%
• seismic reflection 10%
• continental margin 10%
• faulting 9%
• trough 9%
• relief 9%
• limestone 8%
• texture 8%
• catchment 8%
• plateau 8%
• gulf 8%
• oxygen 7%
• province 6%
• groundwater 6%