An assessment of stratigraphic completeness in climate-sensitive closed-basin lake sediments: Salar de Atacama, Chile

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-104

  Lowenstein, Tim K ^a   Hein, Matthew C ^a   Bobst, Andrew L ^a   Jordan, Teresa E ^b   Ku, Teh Lung ^c   Luo, Shangde ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORITE; FAULTING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CHILE; ATACAMA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHLORIDE MINERALS; FAULTING; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; FAULT SYSTEM; LAKE SEDIMENTS; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 10844238929     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/061002730091     Document Type: Article

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