Chile
Subtitle: The Bradt Travel Guide
Edition: 1.00 edition
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: June 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9781841620763
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel; Travel - Foreign; Chile; South America; Travel / South America
First sentence: What is now Chile's Norte Grande began to appear from the sea about 390 million years ago, in the Devonian period, the rest of the country gradually following; 52 million years ago Antarctica began to separate itself from South America, and 35 million years ago the south sank as the Andes rose, pushed up by the South American plate rising over the Nazca and Antarctic plates.