Keping Shan thrust belt. Satellite image of the Keping Shan thrust belt, just south of the Tien Shan mountains, Xinjiang province, China. This region
Keping Shan thrust belt. Satellite image of the Keping Shan thrust belt, just south of the Tien Shan mountains, Xinjiang province, China. This region is dominated by a series of ridges, with the highest hills rising up to 1200 metres and decorated with distinctive red, green and cream-coloured sedimentary rock layers. The colours reflect rocks that formed at different times and in different environments. Red is Devonian sandstone formed by rivers, Green is Silurian sandstone formed in a moderately deep ocean, and the cream-coloured rock is Cambrian-Ordovician limestone, formed in a shallow ocean. Imaged by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite, on 30th July 2013.
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