The Curious Relationship Between Salt and Oil

  / myroncook   Salt Dome, Hydrocarbon Formation, Oil Trap, Hydrocarbon Trap, Buoyancy pressure, Gulf of Mexico Paleogeography Maps Copyrighted by Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc. : License # 5120 Attributions; Plankton photos By Jay Nadeau, Chris Lindensmith, Jody W. Deming, Vicente I. Fernandez, and Roman Stocker. Image courtesy of David Liittschwager. - Extracted from this Commons file, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara expeditions - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/..., CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Adriana Zingone, Domenico D'Alelio, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Marina Montresor, Diana Sarno, LTER-MC team - https://natureconservation.pensoft.ne... Salt worker photo; By Sandip Dey, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Halite photo; James St. John - https://www.flickr.com/photos/4744576... Robert M Reed; Organic-matter-pores: new findings from lower-thermal-maturity mudrocks