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| France/Spain: The high spine of the Pyrenees Mts are snow covered and stretch across the lower part of the picture from left to right)(highest point of the Pyrenees is 3404 m, outside this picture). Snowfree foothills of the Pyrennes in Aquitaine (France) appear at the bottom (north is to the bottom of the view). The Pyrenees range began forming about 320 million years ago and was strongly uplifted again during early stages of Eurasian-African plate collision. Complex folded strata on the Spanish side (near Pamplona) appear as bends and waves in foothill rock across the top of the view. Tin, tungsten, talc, fluorite, barium and gold have been mined from the mountains, and petroleum is produced from the adjacent Aquitaine sedimentary basin. |
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