Week 5 Andes mountains

During my travels in South America I witnessed a range of mountains formed by converging plate boundaries, the Andes mountains! The Andes mountains of western South America is the largest mountain range on the planet spanding roughly 4,300 miles long and were formed when the continental South America plates and the oceanic plate Nazca collided causing the thinner and more dense oceanic plate to submerge into the mantle underneath the thicker less dense continental plate, a process known as subduction. This process of submerging forced the oceanic plate into hotter environments causing partial melting and created magma chambers above the Nazca plate that slowly ascented through the rest of the rock material through the newly formed mountain range. Evidence of this is still seen although the formation of Andes believed to be created during the Cretaceous period starting roughly atleast 65 million years ago. This was an amazing experience and I am excited to share it with you all!