Late Pliocene age for the Atacama Desert: Implications for the desertification of western South America

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-46

  Hartley, Adrian J ^a   Chong, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andes; Atacama; Chile; Climate change; Desertification

Indexed keywords

DESERT;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COOLING; DESERTIFICATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84879887191     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0043:LPAFTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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