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The Sinuous Shenandoah

An ancient collision between continents left a series of fractures in the bedrock around Virginia’s Massanutten Mountains. The event spawned some unusual zig-zagging stretches on the Shenandoah River.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Michael Taylor and Adam Voiland, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published December 5, 2014
Data acquired August 3, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI