Active erosion-deposition cycles in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 371-372, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-133

  Jungers, Matthew C ^a   Heimsath, Arjun M ^a   Amundson, Ronald ^b   Balco, Greg ^c   Shuster, David ^c,d   Chong, Guillermo ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

10Be; 21Ne; Atacama Desert; Cosmogenic nuclides; Fluvial processes; Hyperarid

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA DESERT; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONCENTRATION-DEPTH PROFILE; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; FLUVIAL PROCESS; HYPERARID; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

DEPOSITS; EROSION; ISOTOPES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LANDFORMS;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; ARID REGION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; EROSION RATE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TERRACE;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84878497953     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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