ISS002 Earth Sciences Results Briefing February 14, 2002

EAST AFRICAN RIFT

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Detailed near-nadir shots such as this one of NW Lake Rukwa provide fundamental data for mapping interfering faults in remote and commonly cloud-covered regions. Colleagues at British Petroleum and at the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (UT-Austin) are already using these data in their investigations of the Western Branch of the East African rift. Faults of several trends and senses of displacement are shown in the following view; hachures are on the downdropped sides of fault lines.

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