Late Quaternary hydrological and ecological changes in the hyperarid core of the northern Atacama Desert (~21°S)

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 120-140

  Gayo, Eugenia M ^a,b   Latorre, Claudio ^a,b   Jordan, Teresa E ^c   Nester, Peter L ^c   Estay, Sergio A ^a,d   Ojeda, Karla F ^b   Santoro, Calogero M ^e,f  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

^f Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto   (Chile)

Author keywords

Central Andean Pluvial Event; Dry central Andes; Fossil groundwater; Lowlands; Riparian ecosystems; Tamarugo

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOSSIL; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

AMAZONIA; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; GRAN CHACO;

PROSOPIS TAMARUGO;

EID: 84864770561     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.04.003     Document Type: Review

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