Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45 000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama-Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22°-24°S)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 349-366

  Latorre, Claudio ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^a   Rylander, Kate A ^a   Quade, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Late Quaternary; Middens; Monsoons; Northern Chile; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

HYPERARID CONDITIONS;

GLACIERS; MOISTURE; RAIN; VEGETATION;

GEOLOGY;

DESERT; MONSOON; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHILE;

EID: 84879886111     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0349:VIIADA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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