Another day in mountains has got my neck hurting from looking up so much. I just finished going to a small informational class about the Andes because yours truly is here in Peru. I am finishing up my journey here because I have some family here and I want to visit with them a little bit after I complete my mission. I have had such an amazing experience learning about the Earth and I have learned so much and this trip is really inspiring me to keep pursuing my dream career of becoming a Tectonophysicist. The inner earth has always been my calling and this trip is really progressing my interest in the subject. I’m sure you don’t want to hear me blabber about my dreams so I’m going to get to the good stuff.
Today, I woke up in Peru in my cousins’ house. I always loved going to Peru when I was little because I could look out the window and I could see the Andes. I would tape a piece of paper to the window and trace the mountains with my crayons. My cousins hung the drawings in the guest room so I always see them when I come. Keep in mind I was a very bad artist.
:http://effectiveinstructionalstrategies.weebly.com/nonlinguistic-representation.html
I drew what I wanted to see, not what I actually saw. My drawing skills have changed since then, but not my obsession with the mountains. I always wanted to know why they were there. I thought maybe someone built them, until I learned how they were really formed. I would have never believed you if you told me that tectonic plates can go under one another and that can form mountains/volcanoes. The Andes have many volcanic mountains dispersed around the entire range and that is because of the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Antarctic Plate under the South American Plate. These plates are going under the South American Plate and not the other way around because the Oceanic plates have a higher density so they go underneath and the continental plate, which happens to be the South American Plate go above. Some of the effects of the can be volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.
:http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peru_earthquake/Seismology/seismological.html
I wasn’t able to take a ton of pictures because my camera ran out of storage, but that’s okay because I have a ton from before, but this means I can’t post a ton. I’m so sorry, but I will definitely post them later on!