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- forming diapirs (including salt domes), pillars, sheets, or other geological structures. In addition to Earth-based observations, diapirism is thought...
- responsible for the formation of domes, the foremost of which are refolding, diapirism, igneous intrusion, and post-impact uplift. Structural domes can be formed...
- Active Salt Diapirism". Tectonophysics. 228 (3–4). Amsterdam: 275–312. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(93)90345-k. Drachev, Sergey S. (2014), "Salt Diapirism in the...
- of relatively buoyant magma in large m****es called plutonic diapirs. Because the diapirs are liquified and very hot, they tend to rise through the surrounding...
- country rock, a spherical shaped diapir connected to a stalk will be formed, which is called Stokes diapir. Stoke diapirism is a viable mechanism preferably...
- Separation of metal from rock in a primordial magma ocean; 3) Migration of iron diapirs or ****s through the mantle. Under the ****umption of a solid mantle and...
- and about halfway between Uvalde and Del Rio. Muzzafar, Asif. Timing of Diapir Growth and Cap Rock Formation, Davis Hill Salt Dome, Coastal Texas. GSA...
- Erin Field westward is a strongly folded anticline ****ociated with shale diapirism, which extends west southwestward to the Pedernales Field in southeast...
- create larger veins. Under the influence of buoyancy, the melt rises. Diapirs may also form in non-silicate bodies, playing a similar role in moving...
- One suggests that hotspots are due to mantle plumes that rise as thermal diapirs from the core–mantle boundary. The alternative plate theory is that the...