Early to Middle Miocene climate in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile
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a Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley 94720, USA b School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA c Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile d Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley 94709, USA e Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
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