Dome (disambiguation)

Dome in architecture : ribbed hemispherical dome resting on an octagonal drum in the Great Mosque of Kairouan (also called the Mosque of Uqba), city of Kairouan, Tunisia.

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

Dome may refer to:

Geology

• Dome (geology), a deformational feature consisting of symmetrically-dipping anticlines
• Granite dome, a dome of granite, formed by exfoliation
• Lava dome, a mound-shaped growth resulting from the eruption of high-silica lava from a volcano
• Lunar dome, a type of shield volcano found on the surface of the Earth's moon
• Resurgent dome, a volcanic dome that is swelling or rising due to movement in the magma chamber
• Salt dome, formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata

Architecture

• Geodesic dome
• Monolithic dome

Geography

Antarctica

• Anderson Dome
• Arctowski Dome
• Dome A
• Bonnabeau Dome
• Dome C
• Dome F
• Law Dome
• Siege Dome
• Titan Dome

Canada

• Dome Mine, Ontario

People

• Malcolm Dome
• Ram Chandra Dome

Other

• Dome (band), a 1980s post punk band
• Dome (coffeehouse), a chain of café restaurants based in Perth, Australia
• Dome (constructor), a Japanese-based racing car constructor
• Dome (mathematics), a closed geometrical surface which can be obtained by sectioning off a portion of a sphere with an intersecting plane
• The Dome (periodical), a quarterly publication of the Victorian era, containing examples of contemporary literature, art and music
• Le Dôme, a garagiste wine label of Bordeaux wine producer Château Teyssier
• Le Dôme Café, historical Paris intellectual venue
• Dome car, a type of railway passenger car
• Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center (MARTA station), a passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia named after the Georgia Dome
• Teapot Dome scandal, Wyoming, United States
• Steam dome, a steam locomotive component
• Dome, a 1987 science fiction novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• Dome, slang for fellatio
• Dome, slang for the upper half of the head or a bald head.
• A nickname for the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.