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The Beauty of Layered Stratigraphy
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The layered bedrock in this image was brought from several kilometers of depth during the formation of this 44 kilometer wide crater in the volcanic plains of Lunae Planum. As these layers were exhumed and brought to nearly vertical orientations, faulting and fracturing occurred and breccia dikes formed.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Beauty of Layered Stratigraphy. NASA/JPL, 2017-01-20. Public domain. ID: PIA12178.
