NASA Photo ID: STS41G-120-040      File Name: 10061861.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 10/13/84
  Title: Makran Mountain Range, Indus River Valley, Pakistan, India
  Description:
  The enormous geologic pressures exerted by continental drift can be very
  well illustrated by the long northward curving parallel folded mountain
  ridges and  valleys of the coastal Makran Range of Pakistan (27.0N, 66.0E). 
  As a result  of the collision of the northward bound Indian sub-continent
  into the Asian   Continent, the east/west parallel range has been bent in a
  great northward  arc and forming the Indus River valley at the interface of
  the collision.                  
  Subject terms:
  CONTINENTAL DRIFT                       
  EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)         
  FOLDS (GEOLOGY)                         
  INDIA                                   
  MOUNTAINS                               
  PAKISTAN                                
  RIVERS                                  
  SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 41-G
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