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Figure 1 A reservoir formed by folding of rock layers.
Figure 2 A cross section of a faulted reservoir.
3. Salt-Dome Reservoirs: This type of reservoir structure, which
takes the shape of a dome, was formed due to the upward
movement of large, impermeable salt dome that deformed and
lifted the overlying layers of rock. As shown in Figure 3,
petroleum is trapped between the cap rock and an underlying
impermeable rock layer, or between two impermeable layers of
rock and the salt dome.
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