Paleowetlands and regional climate change in the central Atacama Desert, northern Chile

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-360

  Quade, Jay ^a   Rech, Jason A ^b   Betancourt, Julio L ^c   Latorre, Claudio ^d,e   Quade, Barbra ^f   Rylander, Kate Aasen ^c   Fisher, Timothy ^g  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^f Pennsylvania State University ^*  (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama; Carbon 14; El Ni o; ENSO; La Ni a; Paleowetlands

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WETLAND;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

RODENTIA;

EID: 43149085527     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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