STS-108 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
January 23, 2001

VOLCANOES AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING
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STS108-723-58
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Switzerland: Lake Neuchatel, Jura Alps. The folded rocks of the Jura Mts., highlighted by snow, appear as a rumpled rug. Here, a thinner package of rock layers have been folded and faulted ("thin-skinned deformation"), compared with the great massifs of the Bernese and Pennine Alps farther south.

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