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BRIDGE TYPES IN THE CENTRAL ANDES∗

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1972
ABSTRACT Four major bridge types have dominated the central Andean Highlands in the past 400 years: the indigenous hanging bridge of plant materials; the Mediterranean stone arch bridge; the iron-cabled suspension structure with flat roadway; and the steel beam bridge. All three introductions, although technologically superior to the native vine bridge,
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The Central Andes: Peru and Bolivia

1985
The Andean mountain chain in Peru is divided into two physiographic belts, the Eastern and the Western Cordillera, which correspond to orogenic belts of different ages; Paleozoic to the east and Mesozoic—Tertiary to the west (Fig. 1). Between the two Cordilleras there is a somewhat poorly defined region that, though intermittent, is nevertheless real ...
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Warfare in the Central Andes

Abstract Rather than following a linear trajectory of development, warfare in the central Andes rose and fell in intensity and assumed different forms depending on its social and political context. While small-scale, periodic conflicts were likely present from Archaic times onward, it is in the centuries just after the fall of Chavín ...
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Linguistic complexity in the Central Andes

Abstract Linguistic complexity has been found to correlate with sociolinguistic factors such as isolation, and with geographical factors such as altitude, though such correlations are not without problems. Here it is asked whether these or other factors hold for South America and in particular the Central Andes, and what light the ...
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Brain and Other Central Nervous System Tumor Statistics, 2021

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Rebecca L. Siegel, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Carol Kruchko   +2 more
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Inventory of Large Landslides Along the Central Western Andes (ca. 15°–20° S): Landslide Distribution Patterns and Insights on Controlling Factors

Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2022
Stephane Schwartz, Carlos Lenin Benavente Escobar, Swann Zerathe   +2 more
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Physiography of the Central Andes; II, The eastern Andes

American Journal of Science, 1909
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The Relationships Between Tectonics, Climate and Exhumation in the Central Andes (18–36°S): Evidence From Low-Temperature Thermochronology

Earth-Science Reviews, 2020
Peter W. Reiners, Germán Aguilar, Isabelle Coutand   +2 more
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Interdecadal Variability of the Austral Summer Precipitation Over the Central Andes

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Bo Dong, Mathias Vuille, Juan Sulca
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Physiography of the Central Andes; I, The maritime Andes

American Journal of Science, 1909
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