ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates numerical modeling of high speed motion of salt sheets at various rates, depths, and salt-sheet thicknesses through sediments. If the depth of insertion of the salt sheet is increased to 2000 m, a more nearly symmetric pattern of fracturing develops, relative to the central plane of the salt, for the direction of primary failure as the salt sheet advances at 50 km. When a steady-state flux of salt supplies a developing mushroom cap, the growth of a salt cap can be calculated with a fixed rate of supply from the mother salt layer. Consider the structural deformation of sedimentary rocks surrounding a developing salt body. The relationship between the rock property values which we can measure and the values which apply on a scale of hundreds of meters over geologic times is not obvious. The synthetic data generated were then used in conjunction with the inverse calculations to extract the pertinent parameters.
