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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2003  
         
  Article:   PETROGRAPHIC NOTES ON THE PRAID SALT BRECCIA (ROMANIA).

Authors:  IOAN MÂRZA, VASILE POMÂRLEANU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Salt breccia is a tectonic-diapiric formation that is often mentioned in Romanian literature due to its existence in local salt massifs. The mechanism of salt breccia formation has often been discussed, focussing on source of the clasts. Thus, detailed petrographic aspects that can provide useful information on the lithology and even on the stratigraphic geology of the formations situated immediately above the salt level, were overlooked. Romanian authors mentioned different origins of salt breccia: - Tectonic formation (Popescu – Voiteşti, 1924, 1934, 1943); - Sedimentary formation (Olteanu, 1951; Popescu, 1951); - Mixed-origin formation (Filipescu, 1938). The term salt breccia should only be used with a tectonic meaning, as it is genetically and spatially associated with diapiric structures formed due to the effect of salt tectonics (halotectonics). In other words, salt breccia is a external and cap-rock tectonic-diapiric intrusion body. The development of ideas about the salt diapirism was already presented by Pătruţ et al. (1973) and Drăgănescu (1997). ...  
         
     
         
         
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