Late Pleistocene-early Holocene paraglacial and fluvial sediment history in the Turbio valley, semiarid Chilean Andes

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 166-175

  Riquelme, Rodrigo ^a   Rojas, Constanza ^a   Aguilar, Germán ^a,b   Flores, Pablo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Sociedad Minera Isla Riesco   (Chile)

Author keywords

Holocene climatic changes; Late Pleistocene glacial advance; Paraglacial geomorphology; Semiarid Andes

Indexed keywords

ARID CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLUVIAL GRAVELS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL TRANSPORT; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL MARGINS; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; PARAGLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEMI-ARID REGION; SEMIARID ANDES;

ARID REGIONS; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEMIARID REGION;

ANDES; CHILE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TURBIO VALLEY;

EID: 78751591383     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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