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The Zagros folds contain buried salt domes
Ancient seawater salts rose through the crumpling rock and pushed up rounded domes The range runs along the edge of the Arabian plate where it meets Eurasia, producing long parallel folds. Deep beds of salt left from an ancient sea are less dense than the rock above and flow upward over geological time. The domes break the surface as circular hills, some pierced by springs of salty water. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Zagros folds contain buried salt domes: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Ancient seawater salts rose through the crumpling rock and pushed up rounded domes. The figure is taken from Met Office, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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