And the formation of the Andes has had a huge impact on the plants and animals in South America. For one thing, it created a type of ecosystem that's only found in the Andes in Central America, an ...

A massive magma chamber in South America that pumps melted rock into the Earth's crust created an enormous dome in the central Andes, within the second-highest continental plateau in the world ...

"The Andes are very much involved in the geology of the overriding continent, which isn't in their model," he says. Visit our are the andes so_tall.html">newsblog to read and post comments about ...

Attention on the Andes. The central Andes, surrounding present-day Peru, is one of the few places in the world where farming was invented rather than being adopted from elsewhere and where the ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared common art, architecture, and materials throughout modern-day Peru. Through ...

Known traditionally for their folksy appeal, Peruvian textiles created high in the Andes mountains are being re-invented for the 21st Century. By Dominic Lutyens.

Instead, parts of the Andes look like they sprung from sudden upward pulses in the crust throughout the Cenozoic era — Earth's current geological period, which began roughly 66 million years ago.