Diapir Folds
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Diapir Folds
anticlinal, usually domelike folds characterized by the presence of a greatly deformed core (so-called piercement core) made up of older, highly mobile rocks (salt, clay). The surface of the core pierces the more gently pitching strata of the limbs of the fold.
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