Ben van Kerkwyk
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And it's been uplifted 12,500 feet.
But this is millions and millions of years.
And it's today fed by these glaciers.
So it's slightly – it's brackish.
It's like it's a combination of salt and freshwater.
But it has these species that can only have come from the ocean.
But this is like long geological processes.
I think it's more likely that there was just a different subclimate or a mini climate zone in that area that must have supported that life because that place is massive.
The site where you go is only the barest fraction of what is actually there under the ground.
They've found entire buried step pyramids at this site.
The farmers in all the fields around it, they ran into these big blocks occasionally and like, God damn it, it ruined the tractor again.
It's a big andesite block from Tiwanaku.
And it's a super mystery.
A lot of that comes from South America.