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recorded in the stratigraphy, which is well known from over 10,000 boreholes
and extensive seismic reflection profiling (the main stratigraphic horizons
being also good reflectors).
Trusheim (1957, 1960) examined the growth of one salt dome, or stock.
The mobilization of the salt and the formation of a salt pillow is reflected in
the development of the Keuper (Fig. 15-9). During the early Cretaceous trans-
gression, the salt pillow became a true penetrative diapir, and what Trusheim
called the secondary rim syncline developed. By the end of the Tertiary, the
salt pillow had been virtually replaced by a mature salt dome. Sannemann
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-TERTIARY
- UPPER CRETACEOUS
end Tertiary
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- LOWER CRETACEOUS
end
Lower Cretaceous
Lower Cretaceous
transgr.
1 LlAS
end LIOS
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KEUPER
end Keuper
end BUNTSANDSTEIN
Muschelkalk - ZECHSTEIN
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PRE-ZECHSTEIN
Fig. 15-9. Diagrammatic development of a single salt stock. (After Sannemann, in Trusheim,
1957: reproduced from Sannemann, 1968, p. 263, fig. 2, with permission.)
