STS-110 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
May 28, 2002

GEOLOGY AND LAKES
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STS110-707-35
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Tien Shan Mts., Central Asia: Snow and shadows emphasize the faults and tilted rock layers in the Tien Shan. One of the most obvious products of the collision of India with Eurasia is the Himalayan mountain chain. The Tien Shan are also rising now, in response to that same convergence of continental masses -- one of the distant inboard effects of the collision.

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