Andean uplift and climate evolution in the southern Atacama Desert deduced from geomorphology and supergene alunite-group minerals
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Article history: Received 5 February 2010 Received in revised form 21 September 2010 Accepted 21 September 2010 Available online 18 October 2010 Editor: T.M. Harrison
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