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Dome (disambiguation)

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

Dome may also refer to:

Architecture

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

Places

Arenas

Geography

Antarctica

Canada

United States

People

Art, entertainment, and media

Enterprises

Math, science, and technology

  • Dome (mathematics), a closed geometrical surface which can be obtained by sectioning off a portion of a sphere with an intersecting plane
  • DOME project, a computer architecture project for the Square Kilometre Array, designed by ASTRON and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
  • Norton's dome, a thought experiment concerning causality in Newtonian mechanics

Transportation

Other uses