The Tarapacá Basin is one of the larger basins created on the western margin of South America during the Mesozoic times. Regional studies focused their attention on understanding its Cenozoic surface structures, traditionally ...

Several authors [e.g. 1,2] have proposed that the Andean iron oxide Cu (-Au) systems that occur along the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, are high temperature analogous to Fe-poor stratabound Cu (-Ag) deposits, also ...

There is an exceptional group of alpine peatlands in the world situated in the and grasslands of the central Andes. The peatlands in northern Chile occur in the most arid part of their range. Members of the Juncaceae are ...