Tuffs above us: how tiny we are
The western escarpment of the Andes in northern Chile reflect the dynamic evolution of the landscape for the last 20 million years. Large volume ignimbrite sheets covered extended areas during the Early Miocene followed by uplift and incision as a result of increased fluvial runoff at the onset of glaciation. This several hundred metres deep valleys expose successive ignimbrite sheets formed by a major ignimbrite flare-up event of the Central Andes. Pumiceous pyroclastic flow deposits run several tens of kilometres westward and reached even the Pacific ocean. This landscape finely represent the dynamic evolution of the landscape, where we can feel how tiny we are on the Earth...
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Szabolcs Harangi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
7.3 MB
Width
5184 px
Height
3456 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 700D
Exposure
29 mm f/5 1/500 s ISO 100
Software
Lightroom
Taken
29 September 2019
Coordinates
-18.4078, -70.0201
Tint
Light brownish gray
Submitted
15 February 2020
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