The seafloor off the coast of southeastern Louisiana.
Salt Domes
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico Expedition 2012. Download larger version (jpg, 421 KB).

The seafloor off the coast of southeastern Louisiana. Greens and Orange represent the shallowest water – green is deeper – and blues represent the deepest water. The tops of salt domes are the more or less flat-topped circular features. Sometimes the salt cores get near the seafloor itself; sometimes, the core remains buried by younger sediments. The dome tops in this picture are some of hundreds in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

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