Geologists Climb a 6700m Peak in the Andes | Cerro Mercedario

Описание: Follow University of Arizona PhD students Caden Howlett and Chance Ronemus up the eighth-highest mountain in the Andes (Cerro Mercedario, 6720m). The purpose of this expedition was to sample a vertical transect for low-temperature thermochronology, which will ultimately inform on the timing of Andean mountain building. Please reach out with any geology-related questions and I hope you enjoy the video.

Our work is part of an interdisciplinary effort to understand the geologic evolution of the Andean mountain belt (TANGO; the “Trans ANdean Great Orogeny”). Funding for this research is provided by the Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) program and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

For more information on the broader work being conducted, see the link below:
https://news.arizona.edu/story/uarizo...
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