1990 Goudie & Viles 1995), coastal areas (Mottershead 1989 Cardelle et al. This type of weathering is also an important contributor to the production of rock meals and debris, especially in arid regions (Beaumont 1968 Goudie 1977, 1983 Goudie et al. 1978), and pedestal rocks (Chapman 1980) (Fig.
Furthermore, salt weathering plays a role in the development of many geomorphologic features, such as alveoles and honeycombs (Mustoe 1982), tafoni and cavernous weathering (Bradly et al.
These are supposed to be reflected by salt weathering processes. Types of decay due to salt weathering are shown as Fig. It is a highly destructive process that is particularly important in rock decay in a wide range of environments including Mars (Malin 1974). Many field and laboratory studies over the last few decades have also shown weathering of salt, regardless of the mechanisms involved (Evans 1970 Mustoe 1982, 1983 Pye and Sperling 1983 Goudie 1985 Rögner 1986 Trenhaile 1987 Yatsu 1988 Matsukura and Kanai 1988 Cooke et al. Further interest in the field was sparked by the exploration of theories behind salt weathering (Correns 1949 Weyl 1959 Wellman and Wilson 1965). 1970 Kwaad 1970 Theoulakis & Moropoulou 1997 Williams and Robinson 1981 Coussy 2006 Espinosa-Marzal and Scherer 2010 Flatt et al. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the majority of research work has been done in Europe (e.g., Goudie et al. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the great German desert geomorphologists (e.g., Penck 1891 Passarge 1904 Mortensen 1933) and various French geomorphologists (e.g., Birot 1954 Pedro 1957a, 1957b Tricart 1960) greatly extended our knowledge of salt weathering. 2003 Van Grieken 2003 Coussy 2006 Espinosa-Marzal and Scherer 2010 Shahidzadeh-Bonn et al. Salt weathering has been implicated as a cause of rock disintegration since the time of Herodotus, and systematic investigations of salt weathering have been performed over at least 200 years (e.g., Thury 1828 Miller 1841 Luquer 1895 Cooke 1979 Goudie and Viles 1997 Williams and Robinson 2001 Doehne 2002 Tsui et al.
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