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Phenomenal Faults and Folds

The striking patterns in northeastern Canada’s flood basalts tell a story of continental collisions that played out almost two billion years ago.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Phenomenal Faults and Folds.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 27, 2020
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