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Dome (disambiguation)

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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
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