… that this region underwent significant aridification in the late Miocene or later. The O isotope
data from these paleosols, when combined with published data from the region, reveal a …

… Here, we describe an unusually dense accumulation of fossil marine vertebrates from Cerro
Ballena, a Late Miocene locality in Atacama Region of Chile, preserving over 40 skeletons …

… Sedimentary rocks of Early Miocene age crop … Miocene lava flows and Late Miocene lava
flows and ignimbrites. In particular, several largely-dissected stratovolcanoes of Late Miocene …

We describe a new macraucheniine macraucheniid, Micrauchenia saladensis gen. et sp.
nov., from the late Miocene (Huayquerian SALMA). This is the first litoptern from Bahía Inglesa …

… have fallen in these areas in late Miocene to early Pliocene time. If this … in the Atacama and
the African deserts in the late Pliocene … variability in the Atacama region suggest that humidity …

… Atacama region … late Miocene have had relatively minor effects on landforms below 4,200
m elevation, especially between 23S and 26S in the southern portion of the Atacama region as …

… the region, but they differ from older Miocene soils, which formed in more humid conditions.
The overall soil record for the Atacama … forming sometime in the very late Miocene or, for the …

… of extreme aridity at the boundary between the middle and late Miocene (12–10 Ma). Lower
… the Atacama during the late middle Miocene, we suggest that they represent regional hyper-…

… in the Pliocene or late Miocene, an increase in regional precipitation and/or regional tilting
led to the onset of incision into the landscapes dominated by Miocene gravels. This incision …

… We examined Miocene strata and Quaternary landforms along the southeastern margin of …
common in salic soils in the Atacama, most of which form in regions with low water tables and …