Abstract
Salts in porous rocks are destructive agents that may derive from various sources such as capillary rise of groundwater, rock weathering, or atmospheric deposition; which later precipitate within or on the surface of the media. This results in clogged pore structures, and hence affects the vapor flux between the evaporation front, where subsurface evaporation takes place, and the rock surface.
It is known that salt precipitation results in lower evaporation rate; however, there is still need to investigate various aspects of these processes