The Stone Flower
A disharmonically folded Cretaceous rock in the Peter the First Range, an actively deforming foreland basin in Tajikistan. The fold is known as "Kamcnii Tsvetok" (the stone flower), a box-fold in Paleogene limestone and mudstone.
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- Asia (1061)
- Central Asia (68)
- Tajikistan (25)
- Exact location (70.1061 E, 38.8443 N)
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4320 × 3240 px;
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Canon PowerShot SX150 IS
Taken on 20
July
2014
Submitted on 10 February 2016
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Solmaz Mohadjer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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