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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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