Andes Mountains

Location:

• South America
• All along Venezuel, Chile, Ecuador, peru, and Bolivia, to the end of South American’s tip

Geologic History

• Naza Plate and the Brazilian Shield created the mountain structure
• Magma was pushed upwards, and formed most of the volcanic range
• plate tectonics are caused by it
• Caused also by subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate

uniformitarianism

• The Andes Mountains is an example of uniformitarianism
• It took 18-25 million years to get the way it is now
• It begin to build up 140 million years ago

Constructive

• The Andes Mountains was a constructive process
• It is a constructive process because the ground uplifted and formed mountains

Fun Fact!

• potatoes and tomatoes originated both in the Andes Mountains