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the Andes, that where the rock was covered during the greater
extraordinary manner into small angular fragments. Scoresby [1]
appears to me rather obscure: for that part of the mountain
to repeated and great changes of temperature than any other
of stone.html">stone on the surface, were perhaps less.html">less effectually
therefore that the appearance of a quicker disintegration of
cause may be, the quantity of crumbling stone on the Cordillera
of this detritus slide down the mountains, and cover the
We rode over one, the height of which was far below the
basin-like plain, called the Valle del Yeso. It was covered
herd of cattle amidst the surrounding rocky deserts. The
at least 2000 feet.html">feet thick, of white, and in some parts quite
employed in loading mules with this substance, which is used
(21st), and continued to follow the course of the river, which
that separates the waters flowing into the Pacific and Atlantic
but very gradual ascent, now changed into a steep zigzag
and Mendoza.
I will here give a very brief sketch of the geology of the
there are two considerably higher than the others; namely,
road crosses it, is 13,210 feet above the sea.html">sea; and the Portillo
beds of the Peuquenes ridge, and of the several great lines
thousand feet in thickness, of porphyries which have flowed as
of the same rocks, thrown out of the submarine craters.
by a great thickness of red sandstone, conglomerate, and
prodigious beds of gypsum. In these upper beds shells are
lower chalk of Europe. It is an old story, but not the less
bottom of the sea, now standing nearly 14,000 feet above its
.
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