The Ingemmet reported that the rocks were formed at that time at a depth of five to ten kilometers of the crust. The age was determined by radioactive methods.
Lima. The rocks with which it was built the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian department of Cusco have about 250 million years old, according to a study by Peruvian scientists.
The report contained in the book Geology in the Conservation of Machu Picchu, to be submitted within five days, reports that the rocks were formed at that time at a depth of five to ten kilometers from the earth's crust, said the state agency Andina.
"After the process of Andean uplift, the rocks surfaced as fractured granite and were formed thousands of years blocks chaos," said one of the book's authors and director of the Geological Survey geoscience Mining and Metals (Ingemmet) of Peru, Víctor Carlotto.
Carlotto said that the age of the rocks was determined by radioactive methods.
Machu Picchu is a construction manager from the time of Inca Pachacutec located on top of a mountain, two thousand four hundred meters in the southern Andes of Peru and was elected in July as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
The specialist said that another of the findings of the investigation determines that there is no possibility of a major landslide that does away with the archaeological complex.
"We Machu Picchu for a while. Japanese scientists continue to spread such an eventuality, but not true. Studies show that there are landslides, but they are small and pose no danger of disappearing, "he said.
The book also details the geological problems facing the citadel and surrounding area, and sets out recommendations to overcome them.
next Carlotto José Cárdenas specialist investigations began more than 15 years as teacher of the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad of Cusco and for three years as members of Ingemmet.
Lima. The rocks with which it was built the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian department of Cusco have about 250 million years old, according to a study by Peruvian scientists.
The report contained in the book Geology in the Conservation of Machu Picchu, to be submitted within five days, reports that the rocks were formed at that time at a depth of five to ten kilometers from the earth's crust, said the state agency Andina.
"After the process of Andean uplift, the rocks surfaced as fractured granite and were formed thousands of years blocks chaos," said one of the book's authors and director of the Geological Survey geoscience Mining and Metals (Ingemmet) of Peru, Víctor Carlotto.
Carlotto said that the age of the rocks was determined by radioactive methods.
Machu Picchu is a construction manager from the time of Inca Pachacutec located on top of a mountain, two thousand four hundred meters in the southern Andes of Peru and was elected in July as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. The specialist said that another of the findings of the investigation determines that there is no possibility of a major landslide that does away with the archaeological complex.
"We Machu Picchu for a while. Japanese scientists continue to spread such an eventuality, but not true. Studies show that there are landslides, but they are small and pose no danger of disappearing, "he said.
The book also details the geological problems facing the citadel and surrounding area, and sets out recommendations to overcome them.
next Carlotto José Cárdenas specialist investigations began more than 15 years as teacher of the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad of Cusco and for three years as members of Ingemmet.
