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http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/11/index.html

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows severely tilted--dipping--layered rocks in Oudemans Crater in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. The rocks have a light tone and are somewhat broken-up by faults. These rocks were deposited in flat-lying layers. Sometime later, Oudemans Crater formed by meteor impact. When that occurred, rocks that were underneath the site of the impact were uplifted and tilted by the force of the impact. The light tone and repeated nature of some of the layers suggests that these may be sedimentary rocks.
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- Sunspot   Severely-dipping Layers   Aug 11 2005, 11:33 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Thanks for that. I sometimes forget how much fun ...   Aug 12 2005, 02:03 AM
- - Myran   Been a while since I visited that site (exploring ...   Aug 12 2005, 02:42 AM
- - Chmee   Wow, that really looks like sedimentary rock to me...   Aug 12 2005, 12:50 PM
- - babakm   I was looking into the location and thinking the s...   Aug 12 2005, 01:48 PM

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