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Figure 1,6 SPOT image for Damascus area (left image). 
  
  
  
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Figure 2, Middle East. Tectonic Diagram. 
- to the south lies a zone dominated by nearly 
black dark grey colors: it corresponds to the 
northern edge of the Golan basaltic plateau, 
the northern margin of the Jabal ed Druz. 
  
Figure 3, photograph of snow on Hermon mountian. 
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Figure 4, photograph of Damascus city. 
THE ANT-LEBANON RANGE 
The Anti Lebanon occupies slightly less than the 
western third of the image, mainly in Lebanese 
territory. 
It is dominated to the south by Mount Hermon at 
2 814 m, still snow-covered. An alignment of sharp 
and rather high ridges, trending N30 , emphasize 
the eastern margin, limit of the Palmyra Range. 
The drainge pattern appears fairly confused, 
without any very clearly guiding line, although 
flowing mainly eastward, drained by the Barada 
river and the Nahr al Awaj. 
Microreliefs (on the scale of the image), well 
emphasized by the snow on the slopes of mount 
Hermon, are aligned in a nearly NS direction. 
Combined with the talweg lines trending N80 to 
N90 , they form a guilloche pattern characteristic 
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