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These features may have been originated in relation to thermal diapirs linked to convective upwellings.
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Many salt diapirs may contain elements of both active and passive salt movement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Originally thought to be adiapir(salt dome), an impact origin was first proposed in 1985.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The combination of these conditions (salt presence,diapirmovement, surface breaching, and arid climate) are what make finding salt glaciers so rare.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The implication is that the ice is too thin to support the convectivediapirmodel of feature formation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is an oil field in a chalk reservoir located on top of a large saltdiapir.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Significant mechanical stress is built up between the surrounding diapirs and the artificial construction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Buoyant mantlediapircan locally enhance the compressive stress which may be sufficient for the development of thrust faults.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the rising saltdiapirbreaches the surface, it can become a flowing salt glacier.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They appear to be formations called "diapirs" in which a mobile core containing minerals of low density such as salt, deforms under pressure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The growth ridges end up with saltdiapirwhen the sinking zone sequences weld to the base of the evaporite layer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They may take on dome-shaped forms called diapirs when doing so.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One suggests that they are due to hot mantle plumes that rise as thermal diapirs from the core-mantle boundary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The hydrated, low-density serpentinite formed by alteration of mantle material at subduction zones can also rise to the surface as diapirs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This contradiction indicates that faults exist before the raising of diapirs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An impact origin was first suggested in 1976, challenging the earlierdiapir(salt dome) hypothesis, and strongly supported by subsequent studies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Salt domes are vertical diapirs or pipe-like masses of salt that have been essentially squeezed up from underlying salt beds by mobilization due to the weight of overlying rock.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Eventually, over millions of years, the salt will pierce and break through the overlying sediment, first as a dome-shaped and then a mushroom-shaped - fully formed saltdiapir.
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