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Salt floors to geosynclines

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I propose that if young rift oceans (proto-oceans) are commonly the site of large scale evaporite deposition and if the sedimentary prisms of rifted margins are correctly identified as eugeosynclines, then it follows that geosynclines should commonly be floored by evaporites.

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Kinsman, D. Salt floors to geosynclines. Nature 255, 375–378 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255375a0

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