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STS101-720-61

photo ID STS101-720-61
STS101-720-61 Click the photo number to access all resolutions available and the database record.

Lake Baykal Rift & Transform Fault: Lake Baykal, largest fresh-water lake in the world, occupies a rift valley (graben) that is 75 km wide and ~600 km long. The city of Irkutsk is on the banks of the Angara River, above the Space Station. A 200-km-long transform fault zone connects the Baykal rift valley with the Lake Hövsgol rift farther west (see STS101-720-58. Lavas erupted from volcanoes at the junction of Baykal rift faults and the transform fault zone - for example, the circular features southwest of Irkutsk - have brought chunks of mantle rock to the surface.

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