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| Location: | Praid (Parajd), eastern Transilvania. |
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| Classification: | salt karst with Karren and caves. |
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| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:29:31 $ |
The small mining town Praid in eastern Transilvania, not far from the Carpathian Mountains, has a unique sight: a salt karst landscape in a humid area. We do not know of any other site like this in the world, where salt reaches the surface and forms such a classic but short lived karst area.
Why is salt karst in humid climates so exceptional? Geologic (tectonic) movements are much slower than the solution of the salt. Typically this solution process is extremely fast, compared to the slow geologic processes, and the moving salt is soluted as soon as it reaches the ground water. So it is typically dissolved by ground water and does not even reach the surface.
There are of course karst-like structures like dolines, which are produced by the subterranean sulution of salt. In a certain way there are also caves, huge chambers where the salt was dissolved and transported away.
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