Raimondi- the Man of Peru
Antonio Raimondi (1824-1890) is Peru’s foremost geographer who was known for his extensive travels through the country documenting many aspects
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GEOLOGY
MAJOR INFLECTIONS AND EROSION TRANSITIONS IN THE CANYONS OF THE PERUVIAN ANDES
Significant geomorphic contrasts exist across the two sides of the continental divide in Peru that are a consequence of dissimilar
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Minerals of Bolivia
Bolivia, being the widest part of the Andes and its heartland in many respects, comes with an incredible mineral endowment
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Andean deformation and uplift: a comparison between geological and geochronological constraints with fission-track exhumation method
Uplift of the Andes is a central question on Andean geology. Many studies have addressed uplift as a primary justification
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Base-metal veins of the Peruvian Andes
Peru is world-renowned as a major silver producer, and much of this metal comes from rich mineral veins that are
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Lava is not terrifying and the weather is not raging
Take it from a geologist who knows what he is talking about. Cheap emotional qualifiers on internet news headlines are
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TIMING OF THE QUECHUA 1 CONTRACTIONAL EVENT IN CENTRAL PERU
An intense period of folding slammed the rocks of central Peru after a prolonged period of little deformation during most
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Remarkable folded dacitic dikes at Mina Ragra, Peru
Peru has a very unusual historic vanadium deposit called Mina Ragra that was produced from a small open pit located
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Deformation in the Cordillera de la Sal and surrounding the Salar de Atacama, Chile
The hyper-arid contorted mountain range lying just west of San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile has part of the
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