Meaning of namakier | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of salt glacier.

Examples

“Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.”

“Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues.”

“Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.”

“Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them.”

“From Farsi for "mountain of salt," a namakier is perhaps more accurately described as a glacier of salt that can flow over the land surface as fast as inches per year, rivaling its icy counterparts for speed.”

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