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Rheological stratification in impure rock salt during long-term creep: morphology, microstructure, and numerical models of multilayer folds in the Ocnele Mari salt mine, Romania
Marta Adamuszek
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Computational Geology Laboratory, Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute,
Warsaw, Poland
Dan M. Tămaş
Department of Geology and Research Center for Integrated Geological
Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jessica Barabasch
Institute for Tectonics and Geodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen,
Germany
Janos L. Urai
Institute for Tectonics and Geodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen,
Germany
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Short summary
We analyse folded multilayer sequences in the Ocnele Mari salt mine (Romania) to gain insight into the long-term rheological behaviour of rock salt. Our results indicate the large role of even a small number of impurities in the rock salt for its effective mechanical behaviour. We demonstrate how the development of folds that occur at various scales can be used to constrain the viscosity ratio in the deformed multilayer sequence.
We analyse folded multilayer sequences in the Ocnele Mari salt mine (Romania) to gain insight...