We know that many of you have been waiting, so here it goes: The most comprehensive salt tectonics field trip in the world is back again this year!

It will take place as usual in Algarve and Lusitanian Basins (Portugal) between September, 28th and October, 2nd, with the usual Pedro Barreto , Ian Davison and Ricardo Pereira.

If you wonder why this is most comprehensive field trip on this fascinating salty subject, here are a bunch of reasons (but not all!):

- Go down a mine and walk inside a salt diapir while understanding in detail its internal structure, including intra-salt heterogeneities, igneous intrusions, internal deformation, lateral caprock formation, gas trapped inside salt, etc…

- Witness along beach outcrops how halokinesis is triggered, how diapirs breakthrough the surface and how salt structures promote soft-sediment deformation around them, including the generation of slides, slumps and sand injectites.

- Walk along a collapsed diapir exposed on a costal section where an exhumed paleo-oilfield is trapped against its flanks showing live oil in fractures, spill point, intra-reservoir seals, regional seal, several halokinetic unconformities, secondary mini-basin development, collapse structure… and much more!

- Drive along a diapiric salt wall where an ancient castle sits on top of an upright and highly deformed intra-salt carbonate stringer located right in the middle of it and where syn-halokinetic sedimentation is dramatically different on each flank of this salt structure.

- Observe and understand the formation processes associated with several types of halokinetic-related breccias including those related with composite sequences, caprock formation, collapses, highly deformed gypsum, etc…

- Understand how salt welds are formed and walk along primary and secondary welds while observing mineralization and migration processes associated with them.

- Do all this and much more along beautiful costal and mountain landscapes, surrounded by friendly people, sleeping at great spots and tasting some of the best food and wine in the world.

Still wonder why its the most comprehensive salt tectonics field trip in the world? Better not to miss again… you never know when your next chance will be!

For more info please visit our website:

https://www.geologica.xyz/salt-tig-geo-logica-field-trip-i2