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Salt Lake of Salt Dome of Qom

Salt Lake of Salt Dome of Qom

Image by Saeed Jabbari Boukani, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence.

The Qom salt dome is located at 25 km northwest of Qom city and to the north of the main Saveh-Qom road. Its structural position is in the western of Alborz anticlinal system of the Qom Alborz range and approximately which is of Mio-Pliocene age. It has a regular gentle morphological shape. It covers an area about 6.5 km2 with a height of 285 m above the adjacent plain and 456 km3 volume at the surface.

Reminder If you’re pre-registered for the EGU General Assembly 2011, the deadline for the Photo Competitions is Friday, March 11, 2011.

Imaggeo is the online open access geosciences image repository of the European Geosciences Union. Every geoscientist who is an amateur photographer (but also other people) can submit their images to this repository. Being open access, it can be used by scientists for their presentations or publications as well as by the press. If you submit your images to imaggeo, you retain full rights of use, since they are licenced and distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence.

Bárbara Ferreira was the Media and Communications Manager of the European Geosciences Union from 2011 to 2019. Bárbara has also worked as a science writer specialising in astrophysics and space sciences, producing articles for the European Space Agency and others on a freelance basis. She has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge.


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