Flat in the mountains
by Olivier Galland, PGP - University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Salar de Uyuni is a 200 km wide salt plain laying at an elevation of 3600 m at the core of the Altiplano Plateau, in the Andean Cordillera. It shows that high elevation is not synonym with high reliefs.
Taken in
June
2009
Submitted on 12 Mar 2012
Featured on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union
Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2012
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