A perched, high-elevation wetland complex in the atacama desert (northern Chile) and its implications for past human settlement
A previously undocumented type of wetland is described from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile (3000 m above sea level), sustained exclusively by direct precipitation and perched above the regional water table. Geomorphological mapping, pedostratigraphy, geochemistry, and analysis of contemporary...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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