Lacustrine sedimentation in active volcanic settings: The Late Quaternary depositional evolution of Lake Chungará (northern Chile)

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1191-1222

  Saez A ^a   Valero Garces B L ^b   Moreno, A ^b   Bao, R ^c   Pueyo, J J ^a   Gonzalez Samperiz P ^b   Giralt, S ^d   Taberner, C ^d   Herrera, C ^e   Gibert, R O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Andean Altiplano; Carbonate; Diatomite; Holocene; Lacustrine ecosystem; Tephra

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CARBONATE; CHAROPHYTE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIATOMITE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NORMAL FAULT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SUBSIDENCE; TEPHRA;

ALTIPLANO; CHILE; CHUNGARA LAKE; SOUTH AMERICA; TARAPACA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHARALES;

EID: 34548837771     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00878.x     Document Type: Article

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