The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination

D Palacios, CR Stokes, FM Phillips, JJ Clague… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South
America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with …

Spatial analysis of paleoclimate variations based on proxy records in the south-central Andes (18°-35° S) from 32 to 4 ka

H Orellana, C Latorre, JL García, F Lambert - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The long-term climate dynamics of the central Andes are part of an ongoing international
research effort to reconstruct past climatic variations and sensitivity to different regional and …

Relic groundwater and prolonged drought confound interpretations of water sustainability and lithium extraction in arid lands

BJ Moran, DF Boutt, SV McKnight, J Jenckes… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Demand for lithium for batteries is growing rapidly with the global push to decarbonize
energy systems. The Salar de Atacama, Chile holds∼ 42% of the planet's reserves in the …

High-and low-latitude forcings drive Atacama Desert rainfall variations over the past 16,000 years

FJ González-Pinilla, C Latorre, M Rojas, J Houston… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Late Quaternary precipitation dynamics in the central Andes have been linked to both high-
and low-latitude atmospheric teleconnections. We use present-day relationships between …

Antarctic-like temperature variations in the Tropical Andes recorded by glaciers and lakes during the last deglaciation

LCP Martin, PH Blard, J Lavé, V Jomelli… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The respective impacts of Northern and Southern Hemispheric climatic changes on the
Tropics during the last deglaciation remain poorly understood. In the High Tropical Andes …

Andean drought and glacial retreat tied to Greenland warming during the last glacial period

A Woods, DT Rodbell, MB Abbott, RG Hatfield… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abrupt warming events recorded in Greenland ice cores known as Dansgaard-Oeschger
(DO) interstadials are linked to changes in tropical circulation during the last glacial cycle …

Glacial–interglacial precipitation changes

D McGee - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Glacial–interglacial cycles have constituted a primary mode of climate variability over the
last 2.6 million years of Earth's history. While glacial periods cannot be seen simply as a …

New cosmogenic nuclide constraints on Late Glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Islands, 49° S)

J Charton, I Schimmelpfennig, V Jomelli… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of glacial landforms on the Kerguelen Archipelago (49° S, 69°
E) gives the opportunity to study multi-millennial glacier fluctuations within the sub-Antarctic …

Latest Pleistocene glacial and climate history of the Wasatch Range, Utah

BJ Quirk, JR Moore, BJC Laabs, MA Plummer… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The geologic record of mountain glaciation is one of the most sensitive archives of terrestrial
climate change during the late Quaternary Period. Pleistocene glacial deposits are …

Giant landslide triggerings and paleoprecipitations in the Central Western Andes: The aricota rockslide dam (South Peru)

F Delgado, S Zerathe, L Audin, S Schwartz… - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
The central part of the Western Andes holds an exceptional concentration of giant
paleolandslides involving very large volumes of rock material (v> km 3). While those …