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FIGURE 6.28
Landsat image of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the Baia de Guanabara on the east to Parati on the
west (scale 1:1,000,000); an area characterized by metamorphic and igneous rocks in a tropical climate. Major
fault systems trend southwest-northeast. (Image No. 17612113328, dated July 9, 1976, by NASA, reproduced by
USGS, EROS Data Center.)
H
Hudson
River
Connecticut
River
B
Ramapo
fault
Long
Island
FIGURE 6.29
ERTS 1 image of the Bridgeport-Hartford, Connecticut, area showing the landform developing in a cool, moist
climate in igneous and metamorphic rocks denuded by glaciation. The texture is extremely variegated. The
strong lineament in the lower left is the Ramapo fault. The northern portions of the Hudson and Connecticut
Rivers flow through valleys of sedimentary rocks (scale 1: 1,000,000). (Original image by NASA, reproduced by
USGS, EROS Data Center.)
