The hill is pushed up about 1 mm per year by a salt dome.
Through this mechanism, salt domes and other structures are formed.
The plan was a repository for all types of radioactive waste in a salt dome.
The Soviets, it was later determined, were not testing in salt domes.
While most of the island is flat lying, the salt domes stand out clearly on satellite.
The terrain is mostly plain, with small hills to the north, made up of salt domes.
The salt dome is in the state of collapse.
Located on the mainland, High Island's name comes from the large salt dome under the area.
The mining of the salt dome ended in 1860.
Plasticity effects are taken into account as they naturally occur in salt domes.