Dome (disambiguation)
A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
Dome may also refer to:
Architecture
Geology
- Dome (geology), a deformational feature consisting of symmetrically-dipping anticlines
- Granite dome, a dome of granite, formed by exfoliation
- Ice domes, a dome of ice, an ice surface located in the accumulation zone
- Lava dome, a mound-shaped growth resulting from the eruption of high-silica lava from a volcano
- Lunar dome, a type of shield volcano found on the surface of the Earth's moon
- Resurgent dome, a volcanic dome that is swelling or rising due to movement in the magma chamber
- Salt dome, formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata
Places
Arenas
Places
Antarctica
Asia
- Domé, one of the Tibetan names for the Amdo region
Canada
United States
People
Enterprises
Math, science, and technology
- Dome (mathematics), a closed geometrical surface which can be obtained by sectioning off a portion of a sphere with an intersecting plane
- DOME project, a computer architecture project for the Square Kilometre Array, designed by ASTRON and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
- Norton's dome, a thought experiment concerning causality in Newtonian mechanics
- Dome, colloquial term for an overshooting top above a thunderstorm anvil cloud
Transportation
Other uses
Topics referred to by the same term
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