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Where does the chilean aconcagua river come from? Use of natural tracers for water genesis characterization in glacial and periglacial environments
(Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2020-09)
The Aconcagua river basin (Chile, 32◦S) has suffered the effects of the megadrought over the last decade. The severe snowfall deficiency drastically modified the water supply to the catchment headwaters. Despite the ...
Spatial distribution of active and inactive rock glaciers and protalus ramparts in a sector of the central andes of ArgentinaDistribución espacial de glaciares de escombros activos e inactivos y protalus ramparts en un sector de los andes centrales de Argentina
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2019-08)
Rock glaciers and protalus ramparts are two of the main morphological features of the Central Andes in the Province of San Juan, Argentina. This sector of the Andes has one of the highest densities of occurrence of rock ...
Monitoring ice-capped active Volcan Villarrica, southern Chile, using terrestrial photography combined with automatic weather stations and global positioning systems
(INT GLACIOL SOC., 2008)
Volc´an Villarrica (39◦25 12 S, 71◦56 27 W; 2847ma.s.l.) is an active ice-capped volcano
located in the Chilean lake district. The surface energy balance and glacier frontal variations have been
monitored for several ...
Cosmogenic record of the evolution of tropical glaciers In the Piticocha Valley – Pariaqaqa mountain range (Lima - Peru)
(Universidad de Ingeniería y TecnologíaPE, 2019-08)
The Piticocha Valley is located on the southwest side of Pariaqaqa Peak (11 ° 59'39.53 "S; 75 ° 59'35.74" W; 5758 m.s.n.m) in the Western Central Andes. 35 samples of moraines blocks and rock beds were obtained, to be dated ...
Hydrological significance of rock glaciers and other periglacial landforms as sustenance of wet meadows in the Patagonian Andes
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2021-11)
Wet meadows in mountainous areas are important environments for the ecosystem services provided, mainly those associated with the water supply to local people. In the region of the Patagonian Andes wet meadows are spatially ...
An inventory of cryospheric landforms in the arid diagonal of South America (high Central Andes, Atacama region, Chile)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017-05)
An integral, glacial and periglacial, inventory of the cryosphere in the Atacama region in Chile was carried out to estimate the amount of frozen water reserves in this arid to hyper-arid region. The inventory was carried ...
Glaciares de Argentina: Resultados preliminares del Inventario Nacional de GlaciaresGlaciers of Argentina: Preliminary results of the National Inventory of Glaciers
(Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de Montaña, 2017-08)
Los glaciares constituyen reservas hídricas en estado sólido y son componentes cruciales del sistema hidrológico de montaña. A pesar de su importancia, no existía en Argentina información precisa sobre el número, ubicación ...
Recent evolution of the active layer in the morenas coloradas rock glacier, central andes, mendoza, argentina and its relation with kinematicsEvolución reciente de la capa activa del glaciar rocoso morenas coloradas, andes centrales de Mendoza, argentina, y su relación cinemática
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2019-05)
Between 2008 and 2016 the Morenas Coloradas rock glacier in the Central Andes of Mendoza showed different thermal characteristics at three monitoring sites in active layers, Balcón I (3560 m a.s.l.), Balcón I Superior (3590 ...
Groundwater resources and recharge processes in the Western Andean Front of Central Chile
(ELSEVIER, 2020)
In Central Chile, the increment of withdrawals together with drought conditions has exposed the poor understanding of the regional hydrogeological system. In this study, we addressed theWestern Andean Front hydrogeology ...
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND GEOMORFOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE WANDA AND ECOLOGY GLACIERS DEGLACIATION ENVIRONMENT, KING GEORGE ISLAND, ANTARCTICAFeições sedimentológicas e geomorfológicas do ambiente de deglaciação das geleiras Wanda e Ecology, ilha Rei George, Antártica
(Instituto de Geociências /Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2009)