How to Use salt dome in a Sentence

salt dome

noun
  • 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
  • The refueling station and the salt dome were put further away on the site.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Moreover, a salt dome located on-site will store the hydrogen.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • The property is home to the city's public works offices, garage, outbuildings and road salt dome.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The Utah salt dome was discovered in the 1970s by drillers looking for oil and gas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The sustained oil drilling along the salt dome over decades could have contributed to creating the sinkhole, Howe said.
    — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Louisville recently added roughly 500 tons to its supply and its salt dome is now about two-thirds full, Bell said.
    — Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The mountain structure will be turned into a salt dome in the Bayou Adventure.
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With a population of fewer than 1,000, Daisetta is built entirely on a salt dome.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Daisetta sits on a salt dome, a natural formation created below the ground over millions of years where oil brine and natural gas accumulate.
    — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Its oil is stored underground in a series of large salt domes in four locations across the Gulf Coast, in Texas and Louisiana.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite negative reports from contemporary geologists, Lucas remained convinced that oil was in the salt domes of the Gulf Coast.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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