The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert possesses important reserves of “fossil” or ancient
groundwater, yet the extent and timing of past hydrologic change during the late Quaternary …

Abstract The Atacama Desert contains the driest regions on Earth, with significant rain
occurring only a few times per century, based on sparse historical records. However, the …

Lithium mining in Chile's Salar de Atacama (SdA) has a relatively long and controversial
history, especially when it comes to the local Indigenous peoples. In this context, this paper …

The main forest transitions that took place in south-central Chile from the end of the last
glaciation to the present are reviewed here with the aim of identifying the main climatic and …

Fossil rodent middens and wetland deposits from the central Atacama Desert (22° to 24° S)
indicate increasing summer precipitation, grass cover, and groundwater levels from 16.2 to …

Plant macrofossils, percentage abundance of grass taxa, fecal-pellet δ13C, and plant-cuticle
contents from 49 fossil rodent middens dated by 14C record changes in local vegetation and …

Soils from the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile were sampled along an east-west
elevational transect (23.75 to 24.70° S) through the driest sector to compare the relative …

We assessed the geographic distribution of Tillandsia lomas in northern Chile, from Arica
(18° 20′ S) to the Loa river (21° 25′ S) and discussed the factors that might potentially …

The halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the
Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly …

Paleoclimate reconstructions reveal that Earth system has experienced sub-millennial scale
climate changes over the past two millennia in response to internal/external forcing …