| Central Iran salt basins | Southern Iran salt basins | Characteristics of salt diapirs |
| Early Cambrian, Late Jurassic, Eocene-Oligocene and Miocene | Early Cambrian, Late Triassic | Age of salt diapirs |
| Ravar, Mago, Lower and Upper Red | Hormuz, Dashtak | Name of diapiric formations or groups |
| Down to 1000 m | Up to 1000 m | Thickness of salt rocks |
| Salt Glacier and Canopy | Salt Glacier and Diapiric Folds | Index structures |
| Intracontinental Rift | Intercontinental Rift | Salt deposition setting |
| Retro arc Basin and Retro arc Foreland Basin | Passive Margin and Collision Orogenic Belt | Setting of salt diapirs evolution |
| Columnar and Upward Widening Diapirs | Upward Narrowing Diapirs | Shape of salt diapirs |
| Pre & Syn-Diapirism | Post-Diapirism | Regional shortening |
| Tectonic Forces | Halokinesis | Diapirism as result of |
| to 500 m | to 1000 m | Freeboard elevation |
| until 500 m Subsurface | Near to the Earth Surface | Level of neutral buoyancy |
| More Ductile | More Brittle | Overburden behavior |
| 2 mm per year | 10 mm per year | Recent deformational rate |
| Low | High | Seismicity frequency |
| Open to Gentle | Close to Open | Folding type |
| Less | More | Salt creep rate |
| Low | High | Humidity of the weather |
| Controlled by structures such as faults and folds | Determined the shape and location of folds | Diapirs position |
| 6 small and medium provinces | 3 big provinces | Number of diapiric provinces |