Colours of time smeared in mountain-sized tectonic rip
ScienceQ publishing Group 2014-04-01
Summary:
layers of rock, stacked over millions of years, ripped apart by tectonic forces. This satellite image is of the Piqiang fault in north-western China. The horizontal stripes are geological layers that have been scrunched up and pushed to the surface by the Indian tectonic plate colliding with the Eurasian plate. In each band of stripes […]