What is it about?
The authors - as an introduction - try to highlight the importance of the "Theoretical Geology" - as an analogy to theoretical physics. The second part of the article highlight the contradictions in the classical salt generation concept, i.e. evaporation idea has a lot of consequences, missing from the actual salt deposits geology. The third part brings several historical notes about our ancestors who marked that basin wide salt deposits is impossible to be formed only by evaporation. So, the researchers should doubt the evaporation model already in the last centuries.
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Why is it important?
On one hand tries to draw the attention upon those contradiction, which entered in common knowledge without any consequences for decades and centuries. Stimulates the researchers and students to be critical with the propositions pronounced by "ex cathedra". All this are important, because we need an alternative for deep sea salt generation, having influence upon the geological (stratigraphic and structural) evolution of a basin, with direct consequences in methane generation, migration and trapping.
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I was very happy to have my co-author near me, and the article is a long common debate and critical view of the classical geology. I hope this article will stimulate the colleagues and students to look upon old concepts with critics, adopting the correct deductions and correcting the less plausible ones, because exists a lot.
Dr. habil Zoltan Unger
ELTE University
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This page is a summary of: Review of the Ochsenius Theory for Salt Generation in the Transylvanian Basin, Romania, Advances in Geological and Geotechnical Engineering Research, January 2022, Bilingual Publishing Co.,
DOI: 10.30564/agger.v4i1.4307.
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