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The Topographic Evolution of the Central Andes
Elements, 2018Changes in topography on Earth, particularly the growth of major mountain belts like the Central Andes, have a fundamental impact on regional and global atmospheric circulation patterns. These patterns, in turn, affect processes such as precipitation, erosion, and sedimentation.
Schildgen, T., Hoke, G.
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Ore Deposits of the Central Andes
Elements, 2018The Central Andes has one of the richest base metal endowments on Earth. In 2017, the Central Andes accounted for the mine production of around 39% of the world’s copper, 23% of its silver, 20% of its molybdenum, 14% of its zinc, and 12% of its tin as well as significant shares of other metals including gold and lead (USGS 2018). These metals are found
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2018
The Central Andes and the Atacama Desert represent a unique geological, climatic, and magmatic setting on our planet. It is the only place on Earth where subduction of an oceanic plate below an active continental margin has led to an extensive mountain chain and an orogenic plateau that is second in size only to the Tibetan Plateau, which resulted from
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The Central Andes and the Atacama Desert represent a unique geological, climatic, and magmatic setting on our planet. It is the only place on Earth where subduction of an oceanic plate below an active continental margin has led to an extensive mountain chain and an orogenic plateau that is second in size only to the Tibetan Plateau, which resulted from
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Recent research on the central Andes
Journal of Archaeological Research, 1997This paper reviews the rapidly changing archaeology conducted in the central Andes over the last 5–7 years. Descriptive work remains at the core of much research. At a theoretical level, foreign archaeologists are more fully using historical concepts particular to the Andes, while Andean archaeologists are drawing selectively from processual and post ...
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Mountain building in the central Andes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1989The Central Andes is the middle part of the Andean chain between about 13°S and 27°S, characterized by the parallel running high mountain chains (the Western and Eastern Cordilleras) at the edges of high plateaus with a height of about 4000 m and a width of 200 to 450 km (the Altiplano‐Puna).
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Six Farms in the Central Andes
Geographical Review, 1932possessing within the tropics both highlands and lowlands favorable for civilized development. In southern Peru not only does human settlement attain its greatest altitudinal range, but there exist in close contiguity populous communities of real significance in the life of the country both at low and at high altitudes.
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The Iberian Pig in the Central Andes
Journal of Cultural Geography, 1987The Iberian pig is an ancient breed of domesticated swine with long legs and a narrow snout. Small and agile, it thrives despite minimal human support, feeding mainly on acorns. Its transfer to the New World after the great discoveries was highly successful even where acorns did not exist.
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The Central Andes: Peru and Bolivia
1985The 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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Cenozoic Formation of the Central Andes
1999Abstract Geophysical data relating the dynamic processes of plate motion and subduction to Andean orogenesis are interpreted in terms of a new model for magmatic and tectonic development of the central Andes. The model is based on changing subduction geometry—from normal to flat to normal—and the attendant magmatic and tectonic ...
David E. James, I. Selwyn Sacks
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