salt techtonics

[katesisco]

Looking for references to salt creation.
All of the literature says salt formation was due to circumstances similar to the Messinian Salinity crisis but I wonder...

If we are talking about salt layers repeatedly created, as an onion has layers, how would these have been formed?

Science has discovered under the 'mother' salt layer another layer of pure sandstone. Which would then reasonably be underlain by yet another layer of salt. Exploration may discover the Earth has repeated layer of salt/rock which would indicate repeated cycles of creation of same.

Instead of wetting/drying cycles, perhaps the energy suffusing the Earth's surface in a lightening strike would create bedding of salt. Perhaps all the Earth is underlain with salt bedding, deeper being thicker and larger. As NASA has demonstrated the solar system is cycled thru the galactic corrugated plane entering and leaving differing influences of pressurized gas clouds. Perhaps this cycling, suggested at approx every 200,000 years, creates its own 'shell' of salt then rock covering.

If this cycle were not thought to exist, it would be unlikely that the bright spot on Ceres would have been conjectured to be salt. The energetic bright spots may well turn out to be sunspot-like activity at 30% N&S of the equator, an equally difficult occurrence to explain.

[GaryN]

Salt domes have always puzzled me, still do.

[comingfrom]

Salt is a good thermal conductor.
The latest generation of Solar powered generating stations use salt.
The suns rays are used to heat the salt to a state of lava.
The stored lava is used to produce steam and run turbines 24 hours a day.
When the Sun is shining, the temperature of the salt gets topped up again.

Seeing that diagram of a salt dome made me think of the properties of salt.
Having its unique properties may be what separates the salt out from the rest of the magna,
And then this superheated salt was forced up through the crust.

Just a thought.