The SaltMountainLimestone is a geologic formation in southern Alabama and Mississippi. It is a Paleogene Period limestone formation. and preserves fossils...
important area for oil production. Salt domes and salt glaciers are a common feature of the Zagros Mountains. Salt domes are an important target for petroleum...
of the Rockies includes ranges such as the Wasatch near Salt Lake City, the San Juan Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, the Bitterroots along the Idaho-Montana...
topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by features like poljes above...
southern mountains are predominantly composed of igneous rock while the mountains to the north are composed of limestone. Separating the mountains are wide...
Sphinx of Giza – limestone Abu Simbel temples – sandstone The unfinished obelisk at Aswan – granite Seti I [citation needed] – limestone Lalibela – tuff...
Pakistan Salt Range, Pakistan Sayan Mountains, Russia Sivalik Hills range of outer Himalayas, India Sierra Madre, Philippines Sikhote Alin Mountains, Russia...
in the Mountain Meadows massacre. Before troops led by Albert Sidney Johnston entered the territory, Brigham Young ordered all residents of Salt Lake City...
massive limestone walls goes back over 200 million years. At its core, Potrero Chico is the result of a salt dome that pushed the existing limestone layers...
dissolves limestone and forms extensive cave networks, including the Carlsbad Caverns. Three major ecosystems are contained within the mountain range. First...
868-meter) mountain summit located in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Grandview Peak is located nine miles (14 km) northeast of Salt Lake City on...
folded and faulted. The sediments to the west of the Ural Mountains are formed of limestone, dolomite and sandstone left from ancient shallow seas. The...
influenced by nearby mountain ranges with extensive carbonate rock exposures, which provide water by percolation through the limestone substrate to surface...
a particularly rugged and dense area just east of the Salt Lake Valley, shelters small mountain coves that harbor four world-famous ski resorts (Alta...
Island Carrington Island Stansbury Mountains "Stansbury, H., 1852, Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah Including a Reconnoissance...
formed by the action of ice Salt pan, also known as salt flat – Flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals Mountain and glacial landform –...
salt mine. The mine is located within the Upper Permian to Lower Triassic Haselgebirge Formation of the Northern Limestone Alps. The Hallstatt salt mine...
Mountain chains formed and were eroded again during the Paleozoic. Inundations by the sea caused the formation of layers of sandstone, and limestone was...
The Mega Cavern is a former limestone mine in Louisville, Kentucky. It stretches under parts of the Watterson Expressway and the Louisville Zoo. Due to...
eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mountains. The main river of the region is the Traun, a right...
along which the Guadalupe Mountains were thrust into existence. The range forms the tilted upthrown part of the system and the Salt Flat Bolson forms the...
fluvial shale and sandstone, as well as limestone from a shallow sea, exposed in the Salt River Canyon. The limestone contains stromatolite remains, mounds...
103 m (338 ft)) and rocky. Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations (the Dukhan anticline) along the west coast under...
IAST: Kailāsa) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies in the Kailash Range (Gangdisê Mountains) of the Transhimalaya...
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