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Domes

An uplift or anticlinal structure, circular or elliptical in outline, in which rocks dip gently away in all directions. Doming results in extension of the crust above, and leads to predominantly extensional tectonic features, such as fracture belts, troughs, grabens, and rifts (an area of extension).

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