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- noun Plural form of
diapir .
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Examples
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You're looking at brine pools formed by salt diapirs.
Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans Robert Ballard 2008
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You're looking at brine pools formed by salt diapirs.
Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans Robert Ballard 2008
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You're looking at brine pools formed by salt diapirs.
Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans Robert Ballard 2008
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This close to Chaos Central there would have to be diapirs, and kraken hated diapirs.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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Kraken did not like the electrolytic properties of diapirs.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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But Mr Monegato and his colleagues say the known geology of the region - along with other features of the structure (for example, no known salt diapirs reach such a great size) - appear to rule out such explanations.
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Single-well mechanical earth models were incorporated into Petrel workflow processes to capture the complex stresses and heterogeneities associated with the salt diapirs around the Mittelplate reservoir.
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The diapirs generally are associated with anticlines, and in many areas pierce the structure at the plunging end or on the flanks.
neo-resistance Naj 2009
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Single-well mechanical earth models were incorporated into Petrel workflow processes to capture the complex stresses and heterogeneities associated with the salt diapirs around the Mittelplate reservoir.
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Single-well mechanical earth models were incorporated into Petrel workflow processes to capture the complex stresses and heterogeneities associated with the salt diapirs around the Mittelplate reservoir.
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