Shaping the Amazon

16Feb10

Click here to view interactive graphic The same major geological upheaval that raised the Himalayas in Asia and the Alps in Europe created South America’s northeastern Andes Mountains. The resulting toothy-edged peaks that rose from the tectonic shift blocked ancient rivers that flowed northwest into the Caribbean Sea, then formed new waterways that drained instead […]

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