Salt mobilization (movement of salt from the
underlying strata to the surface)
hotspots within the Murray-Darling Basin

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Source: 'The Salinity Audit of the Murray - Darling Basin 1999

 

 

The movement of salt from the underlying strata to the surface is referred to as its mobilization.  There are salt mobilization hotspots within the Murray-Darling Basin as shown above (Hodson 2002:11).