Textures of the Andean Cordillera
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Textures of the Andean Cordillera

by Marius Schulz, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

Located in the Condoriri group in the Central Andes in Bolivia, Cerro Jallayco, here seen from Pico Austria, shows tilted bands smoothed by glacial erosion, revealing the different stages of Andean geomorphology.