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| ISS002 Earth Sciences Results Briefing February 14, 2002 |
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| Mountain Building: Pyrenees, northeastern Spain/southern France. The Pyrenees (highest point 3404 m), extend from the Bay of Biscay (west) to the Gulf of Lyon (east). The range began forming about 320 million years ago and was strongly uplifted again during early stages of Eurasian-African plate collision. This fine photo reveals details of folded and faulted strata of the southern Pyrenees. Tin, tungsten, talc, fluorite, barium and gold have been mined from the mountains, and petroleum is produced from the adjacent Aquitaine sedimentary basin in France. |
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