"namakier" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (contributor), Report of Investigations - Issues 142-146, page 18:",
          "text": "Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.",
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          "ref": "1987, Munn & Company (contributor), Scientific American - Volume 257, page 79:",
          "text": "Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues.",
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          "ref": "1998, Andrew C. Scott, Derek John Blundell (editors), Lyell - The Past is the Key to the Present, page 320:",
          "text": "Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.",
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          "ref": "2006, John K. Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 471:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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