Unearthing the climate history of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile – deep drilling in two clay pans of the Coastal Cordillera

<p>The Atacama Desert is one of the driest deserts on Earth, with a predominantly hyperarid climate since at least the Miocene. Geological evidence, however, indicates that this overall hyperaridity was repeatedly interrupted by wetter periods. Deep-time precipitation reconstructions of the At...

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Main Authors: V. Wennrich, J. Diederich-Leicher, B. N. Blanco-Arrué, C. Büttner, S. Buske, E. Campos Sepulveda, T. Dunai, J. Feller, E. Galego, A. Hasberg, N. Leicher, D. A. López, J. Maldonado, A. Medialdea, L. Ninnemann, R. Perryman, J. C. Ríos-Contesse, B. Ritter, S. Scheidt, B. Vargas-Machuca, P. Yogeshwar, M. Melles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
Online Access:https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/34/1/2025/sd-34-1-2025.pdf
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