A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when salt (or other evaporite minerals) intrudes into overlying rocks in a process known as diapirism...

Jashak salt dome (Persian: گنبد نمکی جاشک ( دشتی)), in Persian: Kuh-e-Namak (Persian: کوه نمک means mountain of salt), also known as the Dashti salt dome, lies...

cut away, periodically the caprock shears off. Caprock is also found in salt domes and on the top of mesa formations. In the petroleum industry, caprock...

The Gorleben salt dome is a proposed deep geological repository in a salt dome in Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east of...

or in a structure created by the creep of an evaporite. In a salt dome trap, masses of salt are pushed up through clastic rocks due to their greater buoyancy...

that has been variously interpreted as a meteorite impact structure or a salt dome. The structure lies 22 miles (35 km) southwest of the city of Moab, Utah...

occur when salt domes form a caprock. Anhydrite is 1–3% of the minerals in salt domes and is generally left as a cap at the top of the salt when the halite...

the formation of a salt dome often pushes terrain upward from the surrounding land, while also creating a subterranean salt dome trap, holding petroleum...

Karatau fault system, Kazakhstan North Pole Dome, Western Australia (in the Pilbara Craton) Gorleben salt dome, Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east...

(French: Doline de Bayou Corne) was created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum...

The Khewra salt mine is a massive deposit of halite near Islamabad, Pakistan. Salt domes are vertical diapirs or pipe-like masses of salt that have been...

Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United...

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is an American midstream natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas....

Astrodome" Le Dôme de Marseille, France Arctowski Dome Anderson Dome Bonnabeau Dome Dome A Dome C Dome F Law Dome Siege Dome Titan Dome Domé, one of the...

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relatively cold materials, such as salt domes and mud diapirs. If a salt diapir reaches the surface, it can flow because salt becomes ductile with a small amount...

Gorleben salt domes in Germany are an example of a purely passive salt structure.[citation needed] Such structures do not always form when a salt layer is...

The tract is located over a geological formation known as the Tatum Salt Dome and is the location of the only nuclear weapons test detonations known...

sulfur-reducing bacteria In 1867, miners discovered sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, but it was beneath quicksand, which prevented...

bacteria acting on sulfate minerals such as gypsum in salt domes. Significant deposits in salt domes occur along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and in...

metres (14 ft) height) The Salt Dome The mine The Brine Museum, where visitors learn about the extraction process of salt from the halite. Also, exhibitions...

elevation is explained by having it be on a salt dome. The Imagineers took inspiration from the Avery Island salt dome in Louisiana. In addition, the new characters...

south of Rosenberg on Texas State Highway 36. Damon sits partly atop a salt dome which was exploited for petroleum, sulphur, and limestone. Damon is located...

people, 434 households, and 329 families residing in the CDP. The Boling salt dome is a major geological feature in the Boling-Iago area. The large oval-shaped...

known as Ghadir town. Shah Gheyb salt dome is located on the northeast side of this village, the area of this dome is 64 square kilometers. There are...

buried crater. The uplift was initially thought to indicate an underlying salt dome by early investigators, but this origin was ruled out by reflection seismology...

an intermediate storage facility initially planned to serve with the salt dome Gorleben as a future deep final repository for waste from nuclear reactors...

brine returns from a gas storage well in the Barber's Hill salt dome. The age of the dome is not definitely known, but it is at least dates back to the...

impact origin was first suggested in 1976, challenging the earlier diapir (salt dome) hypothesis, and strongly supported by subsequent studies. A geophysical...

severe, with prolonged, bitter winters. Near Nordvik there is a paleozoic salt dome known as Tus-Takh on the Uryung Tumus Peninsula itself. It was suspected...