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{{for|the 20th century geochemist|J. Laurence Kulp}}
'''Kulp''' is a town in [[Armenia]], in the government of [[Yerevan]], 60 miles west-south-west from the town of Erivan and 2 miles south of the [[Aras River]]. Pop. (1897), 3074.
Close by is the Kulp salt mountain, about 1000 feet high, consisting of beds of clay intermingled with thick deposits of [[rock salt]], which has been worked from [[time immemorial]]. Regular galleries are cut in the transparent, horizontal salt layers, from which cubes of about 70 lb weight are extracted, to the amount of 27,500 tons every year.
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