VolcanoDiscovery @volcano.link · Dec 1

While working with satellite imagery, stumbled across some wonderful drawings geology does when seen from distance. Look at the colored stripes showing various mineral-rich geologic layers exhumed, in combination with incredible traverse faults

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VolcanoDiscovery · Dec 1

(where sections on either side have moved sideways, resulting in the sudden steps of the lineaments of the crests/valleys). This is terrain seen on google map satellite imagery from northwestern Xinjiang, China. Around 40N/77E.