Question: Which writer was born in a city with the biggest salt deposits of Austria?
Context: Altaussee is a municipality and spa town in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria.  The small village is nestled on the shores of the Lake Altaussee, beneath the Loser Plateau.  Occupying an area of 92 km², Altaussee is home to 1,777 people.  The municipality includes two cadastral communities: Altaussee and Lupitsch.  The designated climatic spa is within the Salzkammergut region.  Altaussee has the biggest salt deposits of Austria, which are still mined today. Barbara Frischmuth (born 5 July 1941 in Altaussee, Salzkammergut) is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose. Strataca is a salt mine museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States.  It was previously known as the "Kansas Underground Salt Museum".  The museum is built within one of the world’s largest deposits of rock salt and provides the opportunity to go 650 ft beneath the Earth’s surface.  It is a unique destination attraction for exploring an environs carved from salt deposits formed 275 million years ago.  The museum is located in the Hutchinson Salt Company mine which began operation in 1923 as Carey Salt Company.  There are 14 other salt mines in the United States, but none of them are accessible to tourists. Salt surface structures are extensions of salt tectonics that form at the Earth's surface when either diapirs or salt sheets pierce through the overlying strata.  They can occur in any location where there are salt deposits, namely in cratonic basins, synrift basins, passive margins and collisional margins.  These are environments where mass quantities of water collect and then evaporate; leaving behind salt and other evaporites to form sedimentary beds.  When there is a difference in pressure, such as additional sediment in a particular area, the salt beds – due to the unique ability of salt to behave as a fluid under pressure – form into new structures.  Sometimes, these new bodies form subhorizontal or moderately dipping structures over a younger stratigraphic unit, which are called allochthonous salt bodies or salt surface structures. Sink works or sinkworks (from German "Sinkwerke") is a method of salt mining from salt deposits in mountainous areas.  It is similar to brine wells in that salt was extracted by dissolving it in water.  Both approaches simulate natural brine springs.  It is one of the earliest methods of salt extraction from salt domes. A brine pool is a large area of brine on the ocean basin.  These pools are bodies of water that have a salinity three to eight times greater than the surrounding ocean.  For deep-sea brine pools, the source of the salt is the dissolution of large salt deposits through salt tectonics.  The brine often contains high concentrations of methane, providing energy to chemosynthetic animals that live near the pool.  These creatures are often extremophiles.  Brine pools are also known to exist on the Antarctic Shelf where the source of brine is salt excluded during formation of sea ice.  Deep-sea and Antarctic brine pools can be toxic to marine animals. The Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border which is noted for white evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits. Middlewich was founded by the Romans as "Salinae" on account of the salt deposits around it, as it was one of their major sites of salt production.  Middlewich lies across the King Street fault, which follows King Street and then continues roughly following Brooks Lane.  Salinae is taken to be the Roman name for "the salt workings" and it also appears to be the name given to Droitwich.  During this time the Romans built a fort at Cyclic salt is salt that is carried by the wind when it comes in contact with breaking waves.  It is estimated that more than 300 million tons of cyclic salt is deposited on the Earth's surface each year, and it is considered to be a significant factor in the chlorine content of the Earth's river water.  In general, cyclic salt deposits are lower at sites further inland and are most abundant along the shoreline, although this pattern varies depending on the given environmental conditions. A salt well (or brine well) is used to mine salt from subterranean caverns or deposits.  Water is used as a solution to dissolve the salt or halite deposits so that they can be extracted by pipe to an evaporation process, which results in a brine or dry product for sale or use.  In the United States during the 19th century, salt wells were a significant source of income for operators and the government.  Locating underground salt deposits was usually based on locations of existing salt springs.
Answer: Barbara Frischmuth