Mendoza, Argentina

Mendoza, Argentina: The Andes continue to rise and thrust faults move successive slabs of rock and sediment eastward, over the adjacent basin. Traces of active faults, such as the one that produced an earthquake which destroyed many buildings in Mendoza in 1985, can be seen to pass from the valley floor straight through the city center.

Photo and caption thanks to:
Earth Sciences and Image Analysis, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 30 Apr. 2003. "Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record." http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS110&roll=706&frame=54.

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