Scientific Publications

º Bobst, A.L., Lowenstein, T.K., Jordan T.E., Godfrey L.V., Ku, T.L, Luo, S., 2001.
A 106 Ka paleoclimate record from drill core of the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 173, pp. 21-42.

"...Wet and dry phases were synchronous in the central Andean plateau of southwestern Bolivia and along the western flank of the Andes of northern Chile over the past 50 kyr."

º Muñoz-Pardo, J.F., Ortiz-Astete, C.A., Mardones-Pérez, L., De Vidts-Sabelle, P., 2004.
Funcionamiento hidrogeológico del acuífero del núcleo del salar de Atacama, Chile.
Ingeniería hidráulica en México, vol.XIX, núm.3, pp. 69-81.

"En este trabajo se estudia y analiza el comportamiento hidrogeológico del acuífero del núcleo del salar, que incluye la zona de las lagunas que se establecen en sus márgenes, usando el modelo de simulación Modflow".

º Godfrey, L.V., Jordan, T.E.,
Isotopic and geochemical evidence for distinct flow paths of source water to the Salar de Atacama, Northern Chile. pp.1-24.

"In the Salar de Atacama there is more variety of composition due to the influence of salt springs, active volcanism and faulting that allows water that has interacted with basement rocks to reach the surface".

º Jordan, T.E., Muñoz, N., Hein, M., Lowenstein, L., Godfrey, L., Yu, J, 2002.
Active faulting and holding without topographic expression in an evaporite basin, Chile.
Geological Society of America, pp.1406-1421.

"The Salar de Atacama in northern Chile accumulated halite during the Pliocene and Quaternary Ander conditions that alternated between a saline lake and a dry salt flat".

º Jordan, T.E., Godfrey, L.V., Peranginangin, N., Alonso, R.N., Lowenstein, T.K., Cathles, L., Muñoz, N., 2002.
Orogenic Ground Water Circulation: Lessons in Salt. pp.1-21.

"We show that the Salar de Atacama halite could be the product of deep ground-water circulation, coupled to orogenic activity".

º Lowenstein, T.K., Hein, M.C., Bobst, A.L., Jordan, T.E., Ku, T.L., Luo, S., 2002.
An assessment of stratigraphic completeness in climate-sensitive closed-basin lake sediments: Salar de Atacama, Chile. pp.1-36.

"...Major sediment aggradation ocurred in subaerial environments by growth of efflorescent halite from evaporation of groundwater brines".

º Kampf, S.K., Tyler, S.W., Ortiz, C.A., Muñoz, J.F., Adkins, P.L., 2005.
Evaporation and land surface energy budget al the Salar de Atacama, Northern Chile.
Journal of Hidrology

"In this study we examine playa evaporation as it relates to land surface energy fluxes, salt crust characteristics, groundwater and climate at the Salar de Atacama, a 3000 km2 playa in northern Chile containing a uniquely broad range of salt crust types".