salt dome

collocation in English

meaningsofsaltanddome

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salt
adjective[before noun]
uk
/sɒlt/us
/sɑːlt/
containing or preserved ...
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dome
noun[C]
uk
/dəʊm/us
/doʊm/
a rounded roof on a building or a room, or a building with such ...
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(Definition ofsaltanddomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The oil-bearing strata under thesaltdomeconsist of porous sands with some interspersed clay.
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A positive gravity anomaly may be an igneous intrusion, a negative anomaly asaltdomeor void.
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The termsaltdomeis also sometimes inaccurately used to refer to dome-shaped silos used to store rock salt for melting snow on highways.
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Some of the petroleum that was formed in the pre-salt layer has not leaked upward (seesaltdome) to the post-salt layers above.
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The mining of thesaltdomeended in 1860.
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Examples of this kind of trap are an anticline trap, a fault trap and asaltdometrap.
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The plan was a repository for all types of radioactive waste in asaltdome. 24 salt domes were considered.
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Just under 20 percent of known gas reserves are non-associated; around 10 percent issaltdomegas.
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Thesaltdomeis in the state of collapse.
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The dry cask storage containers themselves are not suitable for long-term storage and can not be placed in thesaltdomefor technical reasons.
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The salt encountered a buried fault-block ridge and was deflected upwards, penetrating the overlying rock strata and forming asaltdome.
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The caprock lies 383ft m under the surface at the crest of thesaltdome.
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The 1981 sinkhole, which grew out of the smaller 1969 sinkhole, is thought to have formed from a collapse in thesaltdomeand is now a lake.
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People say that they can exploit oil at present lying under deep water salt domes 1,000 metres or more below the surface of the sea.
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I was told that it was necessary for them to acquire rights over two or three thousand different holdings before they could proceed with the developments on the salt domes.
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Salt domes have been widely proposed as places to dump not merely toxic waste but, for the future, nuclear waste.
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It could mean that the salt domes are diamond pipes, or it could mean that the geometric pattern of this series of salt domes indicates oil.
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Salt can also be expected to be found with equal certainty, because a large amount of gas deposits lie underneath the enormous salt domes.
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The terrain is mostly plain, with small hills to the north, made up of salt domes.
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Each site contains a number of artificial caverns created in salt domes below the surface.
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