The size of the Qatar Arch and the apparent lack of salt
piercement structures along its axis suggest that it is not itself a halokinetic feature and that it is probably a basement uplift.
The Allen Dome is a
piercement salt dome discovered by Shell Oil Company in 1928 and is located 50 miles south of Houston in Brazoria County, Texas.
They also saw, on the Ringnes islands and Axel Heiberg Island, numerous
piercement structures (salt domes) penetrating the Mesozoic strata.
The difficulty was caused by the frequency of the
piercement of the film by the contacts of low resistance, among the surfaces' asperities or conductive particles'.
Gravity data centers this feature directly above Ruth Salt Dome, a shallow
piercement type salt dome.
The Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana contains a number of sulfur deposits in the caprock of
piercement salt domes.
There are many Hormuz salt
piercement structures, i.e.
In contrast to the non-piercement structures, the offshore
piercement features form narrow, slim chimneys resulting in islands with surface areas of 3 to 6 sq km.
However, the presence of salt
piercements suggests the Infra-Cambrian or Lower Palaeozoic salt of the southern Pars province and Abu Dhabi extends into Qatar.
However, the presence of salt
piercements suggests that the Infra-Cambrian or Lower Palaeozoic salt of the southern Pars province and Abu Dhabi extends into Qatar.