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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Karatau fault system, Kazakhstan North Pole Dome, Western Australia (in the Pilbara Craton) Gorleben salt dome, Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east...
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    Anhydrite (category Salt domes)
    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...
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  • Lake Peigneur (category Salt domes)
    the formation of a salt dome often pushes terrain upward from the surrounding land, while also creating a subterranean salt dome trap, holding petroleum...
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  • Thumbnail for Bayou Corne sinkhole
    (French: Doline de Bayou Corne) was created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum...
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    salt mines. Salt mines Khewra Schacht Asse II Turda Wieliczka Windsor General Salt evaporation pond Brine mining Injection well Salt lake Salt dome Miner...
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