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What happens when a salt dome exhausts its supply of salt during growth?
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Figure 1: Interrelationships of salt structures (see text)
If a salt dome exhausts its supply of salt during its growth, the development of the structure ceases at whatever stage it has reached, and the dome becomes buried.1