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Glaciers shield mountain tops

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Glaciers frozen to bedrock may have protected the southernmost Andes from erosion, providing an explanation for the mountains' topography and fresh constraints on possible links between climate and tectonics.

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Figure 1: Tectonics, glaciers and erosion in the Patagonian Andes.

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  1. Jean Braun is in the Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. jean.braun@ujf-grenoble.fr,

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