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Item Structural geology of the Palestine Salt Dome, Anderson County, Texas(1958) Hightower, Maxwell Lee, 1933-; Muehlberger, William R.Palestine Salt Dome is a shallow, piercement-type salt dome. The minimum known depth to the salt core is 120 feet. Cropping out near the center of the uplifted area are recognizable Comanche and Gulf strata of the Cretaceous system. Around the periphery of the dome occur beds of Lower Tertiary system. These strata have been steeply inclined and broken by, at least, eight major radial, normal faults as a result of uplift by the central salt mass. This dome is expressed as a topographic low with a lake occupying the central depression. An annular drainage pattern encompasses the dome.