Throughout the geologically insignificant history of humankind, salt (evaporite minerals such as halite, anhydrite, gypsum, etc.) has played a pivotal role in economy, such as an essential nutrient, resource management and exploitation, and most recently in low-carbon energy solutions such as geothermal exploration and production (Daniilidis and Herber, 2017), carbon sequestration (Zhang et al., 2022), subsurface hydrogen storage (Duffy et al., 2022), and found in association with critical mineral deposits (MacIntyre et al., 2023, this issue). Salt structures (excluding undeformed layers of salt) have been found in more than 120 sedimentary basins...
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