Andean Geology
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This is a 360° perspective on the world as seen from the summit of Quelccaya Ice Cap, in the Cordillera Vilcanota of southern Peru. Quelccaya has been studied since the early 1970s, with a major milestone achieved in 1983 when the glacier was drilled through to bedrock, yielding the first low-latitude ice core reco...
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The Hill of Seven Colors in Purmamarca, northwest Argentina.
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This is a view looking south towards the north facing sloope of the Morro in the city of Arica, located in Northern Chile. It offers a close-up view of a typical Chinchorro burial site riddled with bone fragments, shell middens and decaying reed artifacts. The exposure is adjacent to modern housing and under theat fr...
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Cadena de nevados que circunda al nevado Sajama. Panorama tomada desde la población San Pedro de Sajama.
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This 360-degree panorama was taken from near the eastern edge of an unnamed salar (salt flat) near Yungay, Chile, in the Atacama Desert. The salar is a large shallow bowl that, millions of years ago, was filled with water. When the water evaporated, it left behind these salt deposits. The small formations in the foregr...
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Salar de Navidad is in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the driest place on Earth. The low-lying landscape here, the salty remains of a former lake, has gone largely unchanged for millions of years, reworked only occasionally by small amounts of rain and by the sandblasting action of wind. Th...
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This 360-degree panorama was shot from Bea Hills, near Yungay, Chile, in the Atacama Desert. Aside from the people you can spot walking around on the hill (or trying to find some shade in the 100-degree heat), there are no living organisms in this photo. In this part of the Atacama, there is too little water for life. ...
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purmamarca 2011-04-18
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purmamarca, jujuy 2011-04-18
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cruzando los andes, antes de llegar a san pedro de atacama 2011-04-19
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