1. We were crossing a high, thin cordillera of mountains, their tops already covered with snow.

2. The thickening of the crust beneath the Cordillera Blanca was by magmatic accretion since the Miocene.

3. Mu-Kua River and Central Cordillera, 2004.

4. "Back down the valley, Cordillera Blanca"2.

5. "Benito, Punta Union, Cordillera Blanca"3.

6. The Cordillera Central, or Central Mountains, define the southeastern edge of the Altiplano.

7. Other mobile belts include the North American Cordillera, which includes the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, and the Himalayas.

8. To survive, Cordillera Azul National Park needs money, and it believes that one long-term solution will be REDD (strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation).

9. Cordillera Azul stretches eastward from the foothills of the Andes.

10. North of the Cordillera is the karst country where the limestone has been acted upon by water to produce a series of small steep hills and deep holes, both conical in shape.

11. Cordillera type has a close relationship with high-temperature metamorphism and accompanied the emplacement of granitoid, giving rise to isothermal decompression and then isobaric cooling pT-t paths.

12. A city of north-central Colombia in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes. Founded in1622, it is a leading commercial center. Population, 342, 169.

13. A river rising in the Cordillera Central of western Colombia and flowing about 9'5 km ('00 mi) northward to the Magdalena River.

14. "Mountain Peak, Cordillera Blanca"7.

15. Tower has received visitors from every conceivable country on earth and indigenous people from the Cordillera have visited Britain.

16. This is consistent with high heat flow across Western Cordillera and altiplano.

17. This was the major period of emplacement of granite intrusions which resulted in the growth of the Western Cordillera.

18. Running along the border separating Peru and Ecuador(), the Cordillera del Condor's spectacular cloud forests host a raft of rare and endangered species.

19. The scope of this site is to provide some general information on radiolarians and their contribution to the geological study of orogenic belts and, in particular, the Canadian Cordillera .

20. It's an awe-inspiring sight: massive ice fields and blue-white glaciers span 27 square miles of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range.

21. This site offers a data collection with descriptions of the mineral deposit types that can be found in the Cordillera .

22. After this trek You are physically fit and very well acclimatised to stick to any summit in the Cordillera Blanca.

23. After the magnificent frontier crossing by the Paso San Francisco, we enter Argentinian territory, racing smoothly down the Andes Cordillera high plateaux.

24. A balanced dialogue between traditional and contemporary tendencies that calls to mind the metropolitan pulse and the Cordillera strength and immortality.

25. His scientific results were published in the Himalayan Journal of Sciences and he is now in the Cordillera Blanca mountains in Peru where he will replicate Schneider's 1930 photos of glaciers.