Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons

1. Interpreting evaporite texture

2. Depositional chemistry and hydrology

3. Sabkhas, saline mudflats and pans

4. Subaqueous salts: salinas and perennial lakes

5. Ancient basins and stratigraphic evolution

6. Salt tectonics

7. Karst, breccia, nodules and cement: Pointers to vanished evaporites

8. Burial hydrology and chemistry

9. Halotolerant life in feast or famine (a source of hydrocarbons and a fixer of metals)

10. Oil and gas associations

11. Evaporites as exploited mineral resources

12. Solution mining and cavern use

Nyckelord: Geosciences, Sedimentology, Geology