How to Use salt dome in a Sentence
salt dome
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The salt dome would be for storage of road salt for winter.
—Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
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The Utah salt dome was discovered in the 1970s by drillers looking for oil and gas.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
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The plan eliminated the Paws Park dog park, batting cages and a salt dome used by the city of Park Ridge.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2020
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The refueling station and the salt dome were put further away on the site.
—Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2021
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Wayne County has 12 salt dome yards that vary in size throughout the county and 99 routes to cover.
—Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2022
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The city next week will have a new salt dome to store winter salt when construction is complete.
—Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
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The agency’s website says storing oil in above-ground tanks runs about $16.50 a barrel, five times more than in salt domes.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2020
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The property is home to the city's public works offices, garage, outbuildings and road salt dome.
—Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 23 Apr. 2020
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Rich soil topping the salt dome fostered the growth of palmettos and ancient oaks drooping with Spanish moss.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2018
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Moreover, a salt dome located on-site will store the hydrogen.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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Paws Park, a dog park, as well as batting cages and a salt dome used by the city will be relocated from Oakton Park, officials said.
—Heather Cherone, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
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The Delta salt dome could potentially be a big part of that, storing hydrogen for use by trucks and heavy industry across the region.
—Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
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The reason for the larger than usual budget is that officials are planning on filling the new salt dome at the new Public Works facility on the far East Side.
—Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
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The agency acquired the land from the Bureau of Land Management in a massive land swap 20 years ago with the intent of developing its underground salt dome, a rare feature in the West.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
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At the rift's bottom, the pools ripple atop a salt dome created by the evaporation of ancient seawater — and which was buried and then ballooned upwards over time.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2019
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The discovery of petroleum at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in January 1910 led to a drilling frenzy that is still going today.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
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Two companies want to tap the salt dome for compressed air energy storage, an old but rarely used technology that can store large amounts of power.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
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The first phase of the project is expected to break ground in 2026, with the goal of generating two gigawatts of power and constructing two storage facilities within the salt dome.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
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These tanks are among the aboveground equipment at Sawtooth Caverns, a facility outside Delta, Utah, where propane is stored in chambers that were hollowed out in a massive salt dome.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
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The park district wants the village to commit to providing additional parking at the Bath and Tennis Club, which recently lost about 70 spaces to construction of a public works salt dome.
—Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
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The contract with Berger not only covers the salt dome construction, but construction of the building pad, and pads for mulch and construction material storage.
—Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
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The federal money could help fund additional hydrogen storage outside Delta, too, with more caverns carved into the salt dome.
—Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
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Additional projects, including the parking lot and walkway construction, and removal of the salt dome, batting cages and a two-story building next to the ice rink, could cost an additional $5.9 million.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
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That hydrogen will be stored in a massive underground salt dome below the Millard County power plant so it can be converted into electricity when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, even months later.
—Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
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The natural gas assets include an underground salt dome in Mississippi and a natural gas storage facility in Alabama.
—Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2018
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