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- potential sources of diapirs. Diapirs also form in the Earth's mantle when a sufficient m**** of hot, less dense magma ****embles. Diapirism in the mantle is...
- 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...
- of salt needed to form a layer thick enough for the formation of salt diapirs, indicating that a sustained period of episodic flooding and evaporation...
- The Añana Diapir (Basque: Añanako diapiroa, Spanish: Diapiro de Añana) is a diapir in Álava, Basque Country, Spain. Two notable wetlands are located within...
- responsible for the formation of domes, the foremost of which are refolding, diapirism, igneous intrusion, and post-impact uplift. Structural domes can be formed...
- dome-shaped forms called diapirs when doing so. On Earth, salt domes are salt diapirs in the crust which rise through surrounding rock. Diapirs of molten low-density...
- for later magma. These mechanisms can operate in tandem. For example, diapirs may continue to rise through the brittle upper crust through stoping, where...
- evaporite deposits of Jur****ic age. These salt deposits formed salt dome diapirs, and are found in East Texas along the Gulf coast. East Texas outcrops...
- away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) deep within...
- Erin Field westward is a strongly folded anticline ****ociated with shale diapirism, which extends west southwestward to the Pedernales Field in southeast...