Major hydrological regime change along the semiarid western coast of South America during the early Holocene

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-527

  Ortega, Cristina ^a   Vargas, Gabriel ^a   Rutllant, José A ^a,b   Jackson, Donald ^c   Méndez, César ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alluvial flow; Coastal fog; Early Holocene; El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Heavy rainfall; Pacific Ocean; Paleoclimate; Paleohydrology; Western South America

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FLOW; HEAVY RAINFALL; HOLOCENES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

RAIN;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOG; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHILE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84867986997     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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