salt pillow

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  • Figure 1: Interrelationships of salt structures (see text)
    In salt dome

    …is the main component are salt pillows and salt walls, which are related genetically to salt domes, and salt anticlines, which are essentially folded rocks pierced by upward migrating salt. Other material, such as gypsum and shale, form the cores of similar geologic structures, and all such structures, including salt…

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