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In this active tectonic environment, salt squeezes through faults in the rock until it reaches the surface and flows like a glacier.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Alexander Webb (University of Leeds) and Cindy Colan (Louisiana State University).

Published October 25, 2015
Data acquired August 14, 2015

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI