Firm as the Mountains Around Us An Young Woman Activity Evening of Dutch Oven Cooking, Geology, and Guitar 13 September 2006 One way mountains form is by salt flows Satellite image of anticlines pierced by salt domes in the Zagros fold belt of Iran Why is the Dead Sea called Dead? Why is Salt Lake City named as it is? We think of mountains as being in Utah. But some of the biggest mountains in the world are salt domes, like those here in Katy, Texas! Salt flow example from West Delta / South Pass Areas offshore Louisiana. 25,000 feet + An example of where the salt comes from: What happened to the water in the Mediterranean before the Straights of Gibralter were breached? The same thing happened in the Gulf of Mexico A map view physical model of dumping sediment on a salt layer: A cross-section view of a numerical model of dumping sediment on a salt layer: Seismic Sections across Salt Domes Seismic and Visualization of Surfaces at the Top of Salt Domes The Bowling Salt Dome Example