There are about 200 salt plugs in the southern part of the Zagros Mountain Ranges and the Persian Gulf in Iran (Kent, 1970). The salt comes from the Hormuz salt Formation at the base of the Phanerozoic zone. It moves upward due to the buoyancy, the latteral pressure resulting from the opening of the Red Sea to the southwest, and the weight of several thousand meters of overlying sediments. It m...

Champeh salt dome is located 30 km northwest of Bandar Lengeh, east Hormozgan province, Iran. Iron ores and several alterations can be found in this dome, which consists evaporitic volcanic sequences the Hormoz series Pabdeh-Jahrom, Asmari, Gachsaran, Mishan formations. The existing geological maps do not provide comprehensive details mineralization, alteration, various lithologies dome. Theref...

This paper studies the ability of salt diapirs to lift large inclusions of dense rocks (rafts). Dense inclusions will be lifted if salt in the diapir rises faster than the inclusions sink. The power-law rheologies of six different salts, and viscosities estimated for Newtonian salt are used to calculate the settling velocity of these inclusions as a function of their radii and density as well a...

[1] A record of antimony (Sb) and thallium (Tl) from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome CAntarctic ice core provides the characteristics of climate-related natural changes in concentrations and fluxes of these toxic elements over the time period back to Marine Isotope Stage 20.2, ~800 kyr B.P. A strong variability in concentrations and fluxes are observed for both el...

3-D prestack common-azimuth depth migration (CAM) has strong potential for accurately imaging complex media and correctly handling multi-pathing. Here, we apply the technique to a North Sea dataset recorded over a salt dome region. The results obtained demonstrate the suitability of the method for complex media, and illustrate important differences with Kirchhoff methods. A detailed analysis of...