Flat in the mountains

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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.

Featured on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union (opens in a new window)

Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2012

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