f Evaporite Deposits in Central Asian Pricaspian and Amu Darya Basins - Stratigraphy, Salt Tectonics and the Potential as Petroleum Seal

Substantial volumes of evaporites are present in sedimentary basins in Central Asia, such as Pricaspian and Amu-Darya basin. Pricaspian evaporite sequence deposited in Permian-Kungurian age with significant diapiric features. The evaporite deposits in Amu-Darya basin is younger, deposited in Upper Jurassic, with very little diapiric features. Both evaporite deposits play significant role as primary seal in these basins, however later tectonics could trigger faults which bridge these evaporite deposits.