Which outcome results when subsurface salt dissolves adjacent to faults?

💡 Explanation

Dissolution increases pore pressure, thus, brittle failure occurs more readily via pore pressure diffusion in faults, triggering induced seismicity because the effective stress decreases. Therefore, induced seismic events increase, rather than decreasing geyser activity or stabilizing subterranean structures.

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