Spindletop Hill turned out to be the surface expression of an underground salt dome, around which the oil accumulated.

Other salt dome mounds were quickly drilled, resulting in discoveries at Sour Lake ( 1902 ), Batson ( 1904 ) and Humble ( 1905 ).

Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States.

Pattillo Higgins left the company and teamed with Captain Anthony F. Lucas, the leading expert in the U. S. on salt dome formations.

" In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit ( 40 CFR 260. 10 ).

The highest point in Liberty County is " Davis Hill ", the roof of a salt dome in the northern part of the county.

Citronelle sits atop the Citronelle Dome, a salt dome that is still rising, as shown by the centrifugal drainage of streams away from the center.

Damon sits partly atop a salt dome which was exploited for petroleum, sulphur, and limestone.

The west part of the town sits atop Damon Mound, the surface expression of a salt diapir or dome.

Petroleum was trapped around the salt dome in sandstone and limestone layers.

Sour Lake became a short-lived boomtown with the discovery of oil in 1901, shortly after oil was found at the nearby Spindletop salt dome.

Downtown Humble is located on a salt dome.

Daisetta sits on a salt dome.

The 1981 sinkhole, which grew out of the smaller 1969 sinkhole, is thought to have formed from a collapse in the salt dome and is now a lake.

The cause of the 2008 sinkhole is not yet known, but a collapse in the salt dome that Daisetta sits on is thought to be the cause and suspected to be caused by a company drilling oil out of the area.

The old town ( Altstadt ) of Lüneburg lies above a salt dome which is the town's original source of prosperity.

The salt dome Gorleben, a deep geological repository is proposed.

This process, which allowed for recovery of 98 % of the petroleum stored in the facility, reduced the risk of further freshwater intrusion, and helped prevent the remaining oil from leaking into the aquifer that is located over the salt dome.

Some scientists believe Upheaval Dome was created from Paradox salt bed movement, creating a salt dome, but more modern studies show that the meteorite theory is more likely to be correct.

The highest point on the coast is at High Island, where a salt dome raises the elevation to around 40 feet ( 12 m ).

Every oil resource rock requires oil trap structures which are mainly salt dome, coral reefs, fault trap and fold trap.

Nevill took possession of Observatory 1 December 1882 and found a thick coat of paint covered dome machinery making it immovable, the telescope had been erected prior to dome and had suffered from salt air and moved with difficulty, the polarising solar eyepiece was incompatible with telescope or accessories.

It is salt po'k.

It is salt po'k and skippers.

Preparation of a coordination compound is often accomplished by the simple method of reacting a metal salt with a ligand in a suitable solvent such as an alcohol.

Also, salt water fish is on the table once a week.

Very few fried foods are used and the use of salt and pepper is discouraged.

but again, as one will have observed at any restaurant worth its salt, wine should be served in a large, tulip-shaped glass, which is never filled more than half full.

A salt mouthwash is a home treatment for mouth infections and / or injuries, or post extraction, and is made by dissolving a teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water.

In Tamil Nadu State, it is called ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை and is regularly consumed as a favourite dish, where the greens are steamed, and mashed, with light seasoning of salt, red chillis and cumin.

Abacá rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.

Cyclooctadiene and norbornadiene are popular chelating agents, and even ethylene itself is sometimes used as a ligand, for example, in Zeise's salt.

The system in general aims to increase blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water the body retains, although angiotensin is also very good at causing the blood vessels to tighten ( a potent vasoconstrictor ).

In chemistry, an alkali (; from Arabic: al-qaly القلي, القالي ) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal element.

The air is passed through a spray of salt solution to dehumidify it, then through a spray of water solution to cool it, then another salt solution to dehumidify it again.

The city is also famous for its production of salt and for its seaweed harvest, which is used for fertilizer in the area.

The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.

The problem of leaks is further aggravated by the fact that many of them involve corrosive salt water.

This is caused by the proximity of Boston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, causing a mix of salt and fresh water leaks in the tunnel.

The situation is made worse by road salt spread in the tunnel to melt ice during freezing weather, or brought in by vehicles passing through.

It has been reported that " hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt water are pumped out monthly " in the Big Dig, and a map has been prepared showing " hot spots " where water leakage is especially serious.