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Salt deposits, some several km thick in places, occur on the seabed of the Red Sea. Erosion in places has sharply cut the deposits leaving unconformities (surfaces in which the layering or strata are cut). The deposits also contain evidence they have been stretched.
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This page is a summary of: Growth Structures and Unconformities in the Upper Evaporites, Red Sea, February 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781119158332.ch37.
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