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| ISS002 Earth Sciences Results Briefing February 14, 2002 |
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| Mountain Building: Southern Zagros Mts., southern Iran. The broad, open folds of the Southern Zagros are characteristic of folded mountains with rock salt, gypsum or similar materials at their cores. Such salts behave plastically when mountain-building forces are applied. This detailed photo shows several breached folds, from which the salt cores have been eroded away. In the narrow up-arched fold (anticline) at the right, individual rock layers can be seen to dip away from the center of the structure and to be pervasively fractured. |
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