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29 relations: Andes, Armando Aste, Última Esperanza Province, Chile, Chris Bonington, Country rock (geology), Cretaceous, Don Whillans, Flysch, Granite, Grey Glacier, Guido Monzino, Ice calving, K–Ar dating, Laccolith, Magallanes Region, Magma chamber, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Myr, Patagonia, Punta Arenas, Rubidium–strontium dating, Santiago, Spanish language, Tehuelche language, Torres del Paine National Park, Torres del Paine, Chile, UNESCO, Uranium–lead dating.
Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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Armando Aste
Armando Aste (6 January 1926 – 1 September 2017) was one of the most influential Italian alpinists of the postwar period.
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Última Esperanza Province
Última Esperanza (Provincia de Última Esperanza, meaning "Last Hope Province") is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII).
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934, Hampstead, London) is a British mountaineer.
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Country rock (geology)
Country rock is a geological term meaning the rock native to an area.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Don Whillans
Donald Desbrow "Don" Whillans (18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer.
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Flysch
Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Grey Glacier
Grey Glacier is a glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, just west of the Cordillera del Paine.
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Guido Monzino
Count Guido Monzino (2 March 1928 – 11 October 1988) was a twentieth-century Italian mountain climber and explorer.
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Ice calving
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.
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K–Ar dating
Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.
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Laccolith
A laccolith is a sheet intrusion (or concordant pluton) that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock.
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Magallanes Region
The Region of Magallanes, officially the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
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Magma chamber
A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.
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Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.
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Myr
The abbreviation myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e.) years, or 31.6 teraseconds.
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Patagonia
Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.
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Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas (historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena.
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Rubidium–strontium dating
The rubidium-strontium dating method is a radiometric dating technique used by scientists to determine the age of rocks and minerals from the quantities they contain of specific isotopes of rubidium (87Rb) and strontium (87Sr, 86Sr).
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Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Tehuelche language
Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is one of the Chonan languages of Patagonia.
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Torres del Paine National Park
Torres del Paine National Park (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine) is a national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia.
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Torres del Paine, Chile
Torres del Paine is a Chilean commune located in the inland of Última Esperanza Province and Magallanes Region.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Uranium–lead dating
Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldestBoltwood, B.B., 1907, On the ultimate disintegration products of the radio-active elements.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordillera_Paine
