Abstract:Based on the new well and 3D seismic data, this paper mainly concerns the geometries and growth histories and controlling factors of the salt structures in the KL112 area of the Laizhouwan depression, offshore Bohai Bay Basin. In the Laizhouwan depression, the Sha4 Member of the Paleogene Shahejie Formation attains thick salt and gypsum which have uplifted and formed salt diapir and pillow in the KL112 area. The geometries of the salt structures in the KL112 area change from the overmaturation diapir to maturation diapir and salt pillow along the SN direction, which can indicate that the southern and northern salt structures belong to the postdiapir and salt pillow phases, respectively. Influenced by the viscous flowage and distortion of the halite, there are some saltrelated structures, including saltwithdrawal minibasins and stepped counterregional faults system, well developed in the adjacent areas surrounding the salt structures. The development of the salt structures in the KL112 area was controlled by the extensional stresses, gravitational gliding, buoyancy, differential loading and the basement structures, as well as the strikeslipping movement of the TanLu fault, in which the gravitational gliding in the background of extensional stresses was the most important factors. In addition, the strikeslipping movement of the TanLu fault should exert significance on the viscous flowage and final localization of the salt bodies in the Sha4 Member of the Shahejie Formation in the KL112 area.