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salt dome

structural dome formed of salt or halite
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salt dome

Summary

salt dome ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (502 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • salt dome is made of sea salt[2].
  • salt dome is made of salt[3].
  • salt dome is a type of landform[4].
  • salt dome is a type of mineral deposit[5].
  • salt dome is a type of dome[6].
  • salt dome's Commons category is recorded as Salt domes[7].
  • salt dome's has cause is recorded as salt tectonics[8].
  • salt dome's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Salt domes[9].
  • salt dome's partially coincident with is recorded as oil field[10].
  • salt dome's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000505[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include landform[4], mineral deposit[5], and dome[6].

Why It Matters

salt dome ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (502 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_salt-dome_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{salt dome}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/salt-dome}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → landform, mineral deposit, dome
    Made from material → sea salt, salt
    Subclass of → —
    Partially coincident with → oil field
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553581205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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