Oligocene–Miocene age of aridity in the Atacama Desert revealed by exposure dating of erosion-sensitive landforms | NobleBlocks
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Oligocene–Miocene age of aridity in the Atacama Desert revealed by exposure dating of erosion-sensitive landforms
Published in Geology • Jan 1, 2005
Authors:
Tibor J. Dunai
,
Gabriel A. González López
,
J. Juez-Larré
Abstract
The age onset of hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert, Chile, which is needed to validate geological and climatological concepts, has been heretofore uncertain. Measurement of cosmogenic