Mediterranean salt domes formed after crustal movements opened the straits between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean refilled with water.

地壳运动打开了地中海和大西洋之间的海峡，地中海重新被水注满，之后形成了地中海盐丘。

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Were they salt domes such as are common along the United States Gulf Coast, and if so, why should there have been so much solid crystalline salt beneath the floor of the Mediterranean?

它们是在美国墨西哥湾沿岸的那种很常见的盐丘吗？如果是的话，为什么地中海海底会有这么多坚硬的结晶盐呢？

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Salt domes start during past periods of alternating wet and dry climate.

盐穹在过去干湿两季交替出现时期开始形成。

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Over his career he has found oil, gas and sulfur deposits in the salt domes off of Louisiana's Gulf Coast.

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Another possibility under study in various parts of the world, is compressing large volumes of air into caverns, salt domes or other subterranean features and retrieving energy from the released atmosphere as it escapes.

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