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Salt Domes on Melville Island: Image of the Day
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Salt Domes on Melville Island: Image of the Day
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They may look like meteor craters, but the circular features in the surface of northern Canada's Melville Island actually formed from geologic processes deep underground. These features on the island's Sabine Peninsula are salt domes, or When ancient seas evaporate, they leave behind salt deposits. The salt layers are buried by sediment, which eventually turns into rock. Because the salt deposit is less dense than the overlying rock, it's buoyant. The buoyant mass of salt balloons upward and intrudes into the overlying rocks through weak spots. The intruding ''salt bubble'' is called a salt diaper. This image from the Landsat 7 satellite shows two salt diapirs on Melville Island. The island's rocky surface appears to be dusted with snow in places, even though summer had officially begun. Pale blue and white, sea ice surrounds the island like a carefully crafted stained-glass window. A few puffy clouds stretch across the northern tip of the island where it juts into the Hazen Strait. Hazen Strait is one of the interconnected pathways that weave through the northern Canadian islands that stretch between Baffin Bay to the southeast and the Arctic Ocean to the northwest. Melville Island lies in a geologic formation known as the Sverdrup Basin, a southwest-northeast- trending basin about 1,300 kilometers long and 400 kilometers wide. The salt deposits in the basin are linked to a period in Earth's past known as the which spanned the time between about 359 to 299 million years ago. * en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Diapir Diapirs described on Wikipedia * ainc-inac.gc.ca/oil/ Pdf/c5_sverdrup.pdf Sverdrup Basin from Chapter 5: Canadian Arctic Islands, in ainc-inac.gc.ca/oil/ bkgd/prospectus/inde x_e.html ''Petroleum Exploration in Northern Canada: A Guide to Oil and Gas Exploration and Potential'' by Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs * www.earthscienceworl d.org/timescale/time scale.html?Time= Geological Time Scale from the American Geophysical Institute * earthobservatory.nas a.gov/Newsroom/NewIm ages/images.php3?img _id=17245 Salt Dome in the Zagros Mountains, Iran
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They may look like meteor craters, but the circular features in the surface of northern Canada's Melville Island actually formed from geologic processes deep underground. These features on the island's Sabine Peninsula are salt domes, or When ancient seas evaporate, they leave behind salt deposits. The salt layers are buried by sediment, which eventually turns into rock. Because the salt deposit is less dense than the overlying rock, it's buoyant. The buoyant mass of salt balloons upward and intrudes into the overlying rocks through weak spots. The intruding ''salt bubble'' is called a salt diaper. This image from the Landsat 7 satellite shows two salt diapirs on Melville Island. The island's rocky surface appears to be dusted with snow in places, even though summer had officially begun. Pale blue and white, sea ice surrounds the island like a carefully crafted stained-glass window. A few puffy clouds stretch across the northern tip of the island where it juts into the Hazen Strait. Hazen Strait is one of the interconnected pathways that weave through the northern Canadian islands that stretch between Baffin Bay to the southeast and the Arctic Ocean to the northwest. Melville Island lies in a geologic formation known as the Sverdrup Basin, a southwest-northeast- trending basin about 1,300 kilometers long and 400 kilometers wide. The salt deposits in the basin are linked to a period in Earth's past known as the which spanned the time between about 359 to 299 million years ago. * en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Diapir Diapirs described on Wikipedia * ainc-inac.gc.ca/oil/ Pdf/c5_sverdrup.pdf Sverdrup Basin from Chapter 5: Canadian Arctic Islands, in ainc-inac.gc.ca/oil/ bkgd/prospectus/inde x_e.html ''Petroleum Exploration in Northern Canada: A Guide to Oil and Gas Exploration and Potential'' by Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs * www.earthscienceworl d.org/timescale/time scale.html?Time= Geological Time Scale from the American Geophysical Institute * earthobservatory.nas a.gov/Newsroom/NewIm ages/images.php3?img _id=17245 Salt Dome in the Zagros Mountains, Iran
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Where -- Canada
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Where -- Iran
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Where -- Iran
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What -- Landsat 7
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What -- Landsat 7
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Where -- Arctic Ocean
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Where -- Arctic Ocean
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Where -- White Sea
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Where -- White Sea
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Where -- Baffin Bay
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Where -- Baffin Bay
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Landsat 7
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Canada
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Arctic Ocean
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White Sea
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Baffin Bay
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melville_l7_2002175
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melville_l7_2002175
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-07-06 11:02:22
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2011-07-06 11:02:22
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2011-07-06 11:02:22
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland's www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility.
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland's www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility.
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/melville_l7_20 02175/melville_l7_20 02175_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/melville_l7_20 02175/melville_l7_20 02175_lrg.jpg
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melville_l7_2002175_ lrg.jpg
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melville_l7_2002175_ lrg.jpg
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2006
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2006
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