A study on the nature of salt domes (salt deposition)and its role in evaporation and temperature insandy soils (with constant groundwater level)

A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when salt (or other evaporite minerals) intrudesinto overlying rocks in a process known as diapirism. Salt domes can have unique surface andsubsurface structures, and they can be discovered using techniques such as seismic reflection. They areimportant in petroleum geology as they can function as petroleum traps. Some salt domes can be seenfrom Earth's surface. They can also be located by finding unique surface structures and surroundingphenomena. For instance, salt domes can contain or be near sulfur springs and natural gas vents. Somesalt domes have salt sheets that extrude from the top of the dome; these are referred to as salt plugs.These plugs can coalesce to form salt canopies, which can then be remobilized by roof sedimentation,with the most prominent example in the northern Gulf of Mexico basin. Another structure that canform from salt domes are salt welds. Salt deposits that result from evaporation or salt in flowingwaters, as well as salt that is accumulated in porosities and cracks, can apply damaging pressure tostructures while crystallizing in addition to accelerating and exacerbating corrosion and erosion inreinforcements. These occur when the growth of a dome is prevented by an exhausted supply of salt,and the top and bottom contacts merge. The impacts of salt precipitation on water and warm transportin soil have gathered impressive consideration. Be that as it may, salt precipitation development on thesoil surface and its impact on soil vanishing and temperature beneath a settled groundwater table arenot well caught on. Hence, the objective of this ponder was to explore the affect of the advancement ofsalt precipitation on vanishing and temperature in sandy soils with a settled groundwater tableprofundity. In this article, we study the nature of salt domes (salt deposition) and investigate its role inevaporation and temperature in sandy soils (with constant groundwater level).

کلیدواژه ها:

Salt Dome ، Salt Deposition ، Evaporation ، Sandy soils ، Groundwater level