Alps

96” x 96”

scale: 1” = 1400 meters

client - National Geographic Society

The Alps are a complex fold-mountain system. Vast masses of iceplowed through the valleys of the Alps carving deep troughs with steepwalls.The overflow of ice across the mountain divides shaped the passes.Glacial deposits dammed the streams and rivers and produced the region'smany lakes.

This STM model with full color, hi-resolution satellite imagery illustrates theawesome forces of nature that formed these spectacular mountains.

Solid Terrain Models tell the whole story like nothing else, giving animmediate grasp of the area in a way that can be seen, touched andexperienced directly.

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