Colours of the Hejaz mountain range, Saudi Arabia

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 16 December 2017 at 08:03:19 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Mountain range, volcanism, geology, reg, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea rift.
Fig. 1 - S2 (16.12.2017) - The Hejaz ("barrier") is the coastal range located in the west of Saudi Arabia.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (16.12.2017) - This is the eastern escarpment of the Red Sea rift that separated the Arabian & Nubian plates ~40M years ago.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (16.12.2017) - The region around Medina is rich in geologic features, some of them due to its recent volcanic activity.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (16.12.2017) - Flash floods eroded the landscape, unlike the deserts further east where the wind is the main eroding force.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (16.12.2017) - Sentinel-2 infrared channels can reveal this wealth of colours invisible to the human eye.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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