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Posted: 01 Aug 2013

Taken: 25 Nov 2006

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Mountain range

Mountain range
Along the southern coast of Iran, heading west on a flight from Dubai to Manchester. The island of Kish is just visible above the engine, with Hendorabi top centre and top right is Lavan. Looks like a series of impact craters on the mountains below.

Marco F. Delminho, Fred Fouarge, Earthwatcher, Eunice Perkins and 3 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 slgwv
slgwv club
My WAG from here is that they're subsidence craters, probably due to collapse over dissolve-out salt beds. Lots of so-called "salt tectonics" in Iran--
9 years ago.
Tractacus club has replied to slgwv club
Sounds like something along the lines of sink holes....
9 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Tractacus club
Exactly. Just with dissolving salt instead of limestone--and salt dissolves _much_ more readily! ;)
9 years ago.
 Eunice Perkins
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A very interesting view!
9 years ago.
 Earthwatcher
Earthwatcher club
Great shot of these mountains! They are fold structures.
In this case the mountains are part of a dissected anticline - an long arch-type fold a bit like a long, upturned boat which you can fairly readily visualise by following the lines of the bedded rocks (where they meet the flat desert) along the length of the fold; the beds turn around the 'nose' in the distance and then back along the far side. You can see similar structures in your other aerial shot of this region.

Although salt tectonics do occur in Iran and other locations in the Middle East, I'm almost certain that these are true tectonic folds formed by crustal earth movements. If you look at this area on Google Earth, you can see a whole range of en-echelon, interlocking, anticlines and synclines, which strongly suggests tectonic fold mountains.
8 years ago.

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