[:ja]【宇宙からの地球絶景】No.1076: パキスタンのマクランコースト🇵🇰[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1076: Makran Coast, Pakistan🇵🇰[:]

[:ja]NASAの地球観測衛星Landsat 8が撮影したパキスタンのマクランコーストです。

パキスタン南部のマクランコーストは、台地の岬や奇形な岩、泥火山などが多く見られる地質学的に興味深い場所です。特に、グワダルとオルマーラの2つの町の近傍のシュモクザメの頭部の形をした半島は宇宙からも目を引きます。オルマーラ近くの台地岬に見える断層は、沖合に走るアラビアプレートとユーラシアプレートの境界に並走しています。

地上の様子はこちらです。

参考文献： Hammerhead Horsts on the Makran Coast (NASA Earth Observatory)
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH

[Earthview Wonders] No.1076: Makran Coast, Pakistan🇵🇰

NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured Makran Coast, Pakistan.

With a series of scalloped bays, terraced sea cliffs, bizarre natural rock sculptures, and clusters of mud volcanoes, Pakistan’s Makran Coast exhibits geologically interesting landscape. One of the more eye-catching features of the Makran Coast are two hammerhead-shaped peninsulas near the cities of Gwadar and Ormara. Both peninsulas are small fault blocks which run parallel to the coast. The coastline sits immediately north of an active tectonic plate boundary, a subduction zone where the oceanic crust of the Arabian Plate gets squeezed underneath the continental crust of the Eurasian Plate.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Reference: Hammerhead Horsts on the Makran Coast (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1076: Makran Coast, Pakistan🇵🇰

NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured Makran Coast, Pakistan.

With a series of scalloped bays, terraced sea cliffs, bizarre natural rock sculptures, and clusters of mud volcanoes, Pakistan’s Makran Coast exhibits geologically interesting landscape. One of the more eye-catching features of the Makran Coast are two hammerhead-shaped peninsulas near the cities of Gwadar and Ormara. Both peninsulas are small fault blocks which run parallel to the coast. The coastline sits immediately north of an active tectonic plate boundary, a subduction zone where the oceanic crust of the Arabian Plate gets squeezed underneath the continental crust of the Eurasian Plate.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Reference: Hammerhead Horsts on the Makran Coast (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]