The Salt Deserts Of Iran

With Iran recently in the news, I thought of something with regard to geology.

The compound posting on the geology blog, www.markmeekearth.blogspot.com , "The Story Of Planet Earth", leaves virtually no major feature of the earth's surface unexplained, either on land or on the seafloor. There is still more to be explained but I have shown how this model of the earth's development works so that readers could see for themselves how any features that are not directly described came to be.

Following is the brief abstract that I use to introduce this theory.

Basically, the theory which reveals the explanation for so much of the major features of the earth's topography and the seafloor ridges is that the continents on earth came from two Continental Asteroids. Much debris from the second, and larger, of these two continental asteroids was hurtled back into space, where it coalesced by gravity to form the moon. The idea of the moon forming in this way is not new, the asteroid is commonly referred to as "Theia", but my theory expands on it to include the continents as well. Each of the impacts of the continental asteroids unbalanced the earth's rotation, by the addition of the new mass, so that the earth's poles and equator underwent two shifts to regain rotational balance by centering one of the poles in the new additional landmass. The land mass from each continental asteroid was eventually broken up by tectonic activity, driven by the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation. The south pole is today in Antarctica because that was the core of the Second Continental Asteroid. A similar situation is seen on Mars, where the southern hemisphere is higher in elevation and thus heavier, than the northern hemisphere. But this does not upset the rotation of Mars because the south pole is in the center of the heavier hemisphere. What this means is that there have been three polar eras on earth, with the poles and equator in different places in each era. We are in the third polar era, after the Second Continental Asteroid. The First Polar Era was before the First Continental Asteroid.

The spin of the earth causes magma, hot molten rock, to emerge from below along the equator by centrifugal force. According to the laws of fluid dynamics, this equatorial emergence must then be balanced by periodic longitudinal lines of emergence in a perpendicular direction to the equator. Each time the poles and equator shifts, to regain rotational balance after the added mass of a continental asteroid, these lines of magma emergence must also shift, but magma emergence continues along old longitudinal and equatorial lines for a long time. This scenario explains just so much about the topography of the land and seafloor, and leaves few major features of the earth unexplained.

For a more in depth review of the theory, read the introduction in "The Story Of Planet Earth", on the geology blog.

Every time I think about this theory I notice something else that is difficult to explain otherwise but can easily be explained by this theory. As an example, let's considered the salt deserts of Iran.

Iran is a mountainous country but you can see that there is a wide, roughly arrow-shaped, area in the northeast central part of the country that is flat, and extends to the southeast. This is actually a plateau, the Iranian Plateau. It encompasses two deserts, the Dasht e Kavir, in the north, and the Dasht e Lut, to the southeast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Iran#/media/File:MapOfIran.png

But a desert is a matter of climate, not of geology. What I find to be so significant is that these two deserts on the plateau are salty. Salt comes from the seas. So how could we possibly get salty deserts on a high plateau far inland in a very mountainous country? This really requires some special explanation that I cannot find anywhere.

But my geology theory, as described in "The Story Of Planet Earth", makes it very simple.

The north-south axis of the Caspian Sea is a longitudinal line of magma emergence from the present polar era, after the landing of the third, and final, Continental Asteroid. The long line of otherwise very difficult to explain mountains that extends across Turkey and Iran to central Asia and beyond is actually the Original Impact Line, the remnants of this last Continental Asteroid as it struck the earth at a relatively low angle.

This extensive range of mountains across Turkey and Iran and into central Asia and beyond being the Original Impact Line of the third, and last, Continental Asteroid resolves another great mystery of the earth's geography. The Caspian Sea is salt water but yet is completely separated, and far away from, the rest of the earth's seas. How could this possibly come to be? The clear and simple answer is that is was separated by the landing of the last Continental Asteroid, and the deposition of it's debris as this Original Impact line of mountains. This also explains why the Black Sea would also be completely separated from the rest of the earth's seas, except for the Bosporus Strait which is also a line of emergence that formed a gap in this Original Impact Line.

The north-south line of longitudinal magma emergence that then formed spread the ground below the Original Impact Line of the last Continental Asteroid apart, creating a wide gap in it. That gap extended southward, in a north-south line, from what is now the north-south axis of the Caspian Sea.

But what happened is that the Arabian Plate, the tectonic plate just to the south, was moving northward as it still is. That is why Iran is vulnerable to earthquakes. This pushed against the Original Impact Line, the extensive mountains across Turkey and Iran, and pushed the western part of it northward. We can see this in how the mountains of Turkey extend east-west but then the mountains of western Iran, to the east of Turkey, are more angled from northwest to southeast.

This pushing against the Original Impact Line, as described in my theory, of the Arabian tectonic Plate forced the seafloor of the gap that had been produced by the magma emergence along the north-south longitudinal line of emergence that ran south from the Caspian Sea upward. This seafloor forced upward is what formed the Iranian Plateau as seen on the map above. Since the sea contained salt, that explains why the two deserts on the Iranian Plateau, the Dasht e Kavir in the north and the Dasht e Lut in the southeast, are salty.