Haselgebirge is an evaporite sedimentary rock type composed of 10-70wt% halite, with clasts of anhydrite, mudrock, and polyhalite in a halite matrix. Bodies of pure rocksalt within the haselgebirge display red to dark color bands of foliation. Tectonic deformation occurred between the Late Jurassic to the Neogene, resulting in a two-component tectonite, haselgebirge and kerngebirge (more than 70wt% halite). Within the fault zones the haselgebirge forms protocataclasites, while the kerngebirge, and pure rock salt, form mylonites and ultramylonites. The Haselgebirge Formation is mined in Altaussee, Berchtesgarden, and Dürrnberg. [1]
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edit- ^ Leitner, Christoph; Neubauer, Franz; Urai, Janos; Schoenherr, Johannes (2011). "Structure and evolution of a rocksalt-mudrock-tectonite: The haselgebirge in the Northern Calcareous Alps". ScienceDirect. Elsevier. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
