diapir in English
noun
1
a domed rock formation in which a core of rock has moved upward to pierce the overlying strata.
Essentially, this means that over geological timescales, diapirs flow through the sub-surface.
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1. Allochthonous salt is defined as a “subhorizontal or moderately dipping, sheetlike salt diapir emplaced at stratigraphic levels above the autochthonous source layer” (Hudec & Jackson, 2011).There is no hard cutoff for salt to qualify as Allochthonous: an overhanging upper part of a diapir grades into a subhorizontal salt sheet, which is an Allochthonous salt body, sourced by a single
2. Other articles where Salt anticline is discussed: diapir: …associated with salt domes or salt Anticlines; in some cases the diapiric process is thought to be the mode of origin for a salt dome itself.