STS-100 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
May 30, 2001

OTHER GEOLOGY
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Turkey: SE Turkey and the Greek Islands.
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STS100-720-7
Turkey: Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara.
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STS100-710-44
Argentina: The Pacific seafloor is descending (being subducted) beneath the South American tectonic plate. Just inland from the Peru-Chile trench is a chain of volcanoes that extends from Colombia to the tip of Chile, with a break between 30 and 33 degrees S. Laguna de Salina Verde is at ~15,000 ft with the volcanoes of Cerro Ojos del Salado rising to ~21,000 ft.
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STS100-710-45
Argentina: Laguna Verde, a short distance north of Laguna de Salina Verde, is at ~16,000 ft and surrounded by volcanic peaks.
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Argentina: Details of the High Andes volcanic field include this local volcanic vent and lava flow, cinder cones, and a windblown cinder trail. In addition a sharp fault trace separates visibly different rock units just north of Laguna Verde.
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Libya: Resistant ridges in the Sahara Desert.
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STS100-704-73
Mauritania: Richat structure, an ~85-million-year-old cyclindrical intrusion. Roughly 1,800 m of sedimentary rock and igneous material has been peeled away as erosion has exposed the mass as a series of concentric circles.
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Canada: Raised shorelines, Hudson Bay.
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STS100-705-10
Canada: Raised shorelines, Hudson Bay.
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Afghanistan: Pamir Mountains.
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