Environment of Halogen Rock Formation in the Region of the Gremyachinskoye Sylvinite Field

Environment of Halogen Rock Formation in the Region of the Gremyachinskoye Sylvinite Field

The Gremyachinskoye sylvinite field lies in the south of the Volga monocline, to the northeast of the Severo-Kotelnikovskij overthrust. Halogen beds from the field were examined. The study has provided grounds for correlating the field potassium-bearing horizon with the Pogozhskaya rhythmic member from the Volga monocline. The halogen bed formation was influenced by the principal water area of the salt-generating basin in the east and by the calcium chloride brines discharged along the disjunctive dislocations limiting the overthrust zone.