Glaciers shield mountain tops

Jean Braun
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Jean Braun: Jean Braun is in the Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. jean.braun@ujf-grenoble.fr

Nature, 2010, vol. 467, issue 7313, 281-282

Abstract: Glaciers frozen to bedrock may have protected the southernmost Andes from erosion, providing an explanation for the mountains' topography and fresh constraints on possible links between climate and tectonics.

Date: 2010
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