Enormous dome in central Andes driven by huge magma body beneath it

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 04:01 in Earth & Climate

A new analysis of the topography of the central Andes shows the uplifting of the Earth's second highest continental plateau was driven in part by a huge zone of melted rock in the crust, known as a magma body.

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