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| Kamchatka Peninsula: Southern Kamchatka Peninsula is at the junction of three tectonic plates: Eurasian, Pacific, and North American. Off the southeastern coast of the peninsula lies the deep (>25,000 ft) Kurile trench, where the Pacific plate is descending beneath Eurasia as the two converge. In such settings (subduction zones) volcanoes develop on the overriding plate -- Eurasia in this instance -- producing the craters, lava flows, and rugged topography seen in this southward view. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) images provide great topographic detail for interpreting the photographic data: ( http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-99/html/). |
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