
Salt Dome In Qom Kuh
by Ahmad Aghahosseini, Tehran, Iran
The Qom salt dome is located at 25km NW of Qom city and in the N of the main Saveh- Qom road. Its structural position is in the western of Alborz anticlinal system of the Qom Alborz range and approximately which is of Mio-Pliocene age. It has a regular gentle morphological shape. It covers an area about 6.5km2with a height of 285m above the adjacent plain and 456km3 volumes at the surface.
Submitted on 10 Jan 2010
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- Exact location (50.6892 E, 34.7616 N)
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