STS-106 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
October 17, 2000

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STS106-702-84
photo ID STS106-702-84
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The Alps were uplifted later (~60 million years ago) than were the Pyrenees, in the same Eurasian-African collision. The western Alps are truncated by younger Rhone rift faults; the Rhone and Rhine rift valleys, as well as the transform fault zone (from Basel, Switzerland to Dijon, France) developed about 23 million years ago.

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