Mid- and late-Holocene limnogeology of Laguna del Negro Francisco, northern Chile, and its palaeoclimatic implications

Holocene

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-159

  Grosjean, Martin ^a   Valero Garcés, Bias L ^b   Geyh, Mebus A ^c   Messerli, Bruno ^a   Schotterer, Ulrich ^a   Schreier, Hans ^d   Kelts, Kerry ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid Andes; Chile; Climatic change; Facies analysis; Geochronology; Lake sediments; Mid Holocene aridity; Precipitation rates; Saline lakes

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOLIMNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION RATE;

CHILE, ALTIPLANO, LAKE NEGRO FRANCISCO;

EID: 0030616905     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369700700203     Document Type: Article

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