{"id":5303,"date":"2012-02-20T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T21:36:59","slug":"take-a-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/02\/20\/take-a-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Hike!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Marraffini<\/h3>\n

Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/p>\n

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Torres del Paine photo by: Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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During the winter break, six students received the amazing opportunity to take the field class Global Kelp Systems, taught in Puerto Montt Chile.\u00a0 In the few weeks prior to the course we traveled around Chile and neighboring countries to take full advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity.\u00a0 Phycology student Sara Worden, and I traveled to the Chilian National Park Torres del Paine.\u00a0 We were amazed at the landscape of the Patagonian steppe, enormous mountain peaks, and blue green glacial lakes that dotted the horizon.\u00a0 Our journey to the park consisted of a 3 day hike up to los Torres, the namesake of the park, and around to los Cuerrnos.<\/p>\n

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Part of our hike in Torres del Paine Photo by: Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mountainous group of Paine called massif consists mainly of granite and sedimentary rocks.\u00a0 This mountain was formed 12 million years ago (the Andes Range of Mountains formed 60 million years ago) and from a geological standpoint this landscape is considered new.\u00a0 The origin of the relief is from a unique combination of upheaval of the Paine Mountain Range and the erosive action of the glacial advances and reverses.<\/p>\n

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Los Cuerrnos captured on the second day of our hike. Notice the light grey granite with the darker sediments at the peaks. Photo By: Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The differences in color seen in the rocks and formations are due to granite (light grey) and sediment (black or dark grey).\u00a0 Most of this sediment has been dated to the Cretaceous period with intrusions of Miocene laccolith.<\/p>\n

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View from the Top: Los Torres and glacial lake Photo by: Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glacial weathering over the last ten thousand years is responsible for many of the sculptural features of Torres del Paine including the Torres where their overlaying sedimentary rock layer has been completely eroded away leaving behind the more resistant granite.\u00a0 Los Cuerrnos is also a great example of this glacial weathering which show dark, central bands of exposed granite with contrast their dark peaks of remnants of heavily eroded sedimentary stratum. \u00a0\u00a0Throughout our hike we kept using our knowledge of geology to tell the story of these thousands of year\u2019s old formations and it made this impressive landscape even more beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Glacial lake and bedding of Torres del Paine, the bedding was likely deposited horizontally and later uplifed. Photo by: Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Marraffini Invertebrate Zoology Lab   During the winter break, six students received the amazing opportunity to take the field class Global Kelp Systems, taught in Puerto Montt Chile.\u00a0 In the few weeks prior to the course we traveled around Chile and neighboring countries to take full advantage of this once in a lifetime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21516,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/21516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}