Aeolian erosion and sand transport over the Mejillones Pampa in the coastal Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Geomorphology

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 312-325

  Flores Aqueveque, Valentina ^a,b   Alfaro, Stéphane ^b   Muñoz, Ricardo ^a   Rutllant, José A ^a   Caquineau, Sandrine ^c   Le Roux, Jacobus P ^a   Vargas, Gabriel ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Friction velocity; Mejillones Pampa; Sediment transport; Surface roughness coefficient; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EOLIAN PROCESS; FRICTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EROSION;

ANTOFAGASTA; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; MEJILLONES PENINSULA;

EID: 77954816087     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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