This is a question about the shapes formed by the Nazca lines..one in particular..Kilroymaster, please answer?

Question

-14.73, -75.14

if you put those coordinates into Google Earth, you will be taken to the Nazca Lines...zoom out a little, until you can see a pentagram forming...is that place really the Nazca Lines? Or is it just some other place?

Answer 1

Google Earth is not the most accurate imaging system to view the Earth up close.  The lines can be man made boundaries or a flaw in the image.  The Nasca Plate is what you are looking at.  The eastern margin of this plate is a convergent boundary subduction zone under the South American Plate and the Andes Mountains, forming the Peru-Chile Trench. The southern side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate, the Chile Rise, where seafloor spreading permits magma to rise. The western side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate, forming the East Pacific Rise. The northern side is a divergent boundary with the Cocos Plate, the Galapagos Rise. A triple junction occurs at the northwest corner of the plate where the Nazca, the Cocos, and the Pacific plates all join off the coast of Colombia.

A second junction, the Chile Triple Junction, occurs at the southwest corner at the intersection with the Nazca, the Pacific, and the Antarctic plates off the coast of southern Chile. At each of these triple junctions an anomalous microplate exists, the Galapagos Microplate at the northern junction and the Juan Fernandez Microplate at the southern junction. The Easter Island Microplate is a third microplate that is located just north of the Juan Fernandez Microplate and lies just west of Easter Island.