NASA Photo ID: STS41G-120-040     File Name: 10061861.jpg

Film Type: 4x5 inch               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.