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Finstad, Kari; Pfeiffer, Marco; McNicol, Gavin; Tuite, Michael; Williford, Kenneth; Amundson, Ronald (Cambridge University Press, 2018)This paper reports a previously unidentified paleoenvironmental record found in sand dunes of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Long-term aeolian deflation by prevailing onshore winds has resulted in the deposition of sand on the ...
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Pfeiffer, Marco; Latorre, Claudio; Gayo, Eugenia; Amundson, Ronald (Geological Society of America, 2019)We discovered permanently hydrated CaCl 2 -rich soils in Earth's driest region, the Atacama Desert. The soils contain up to ~15% CaCl 2 . X-ray diffraction indicates the rare minerals sinjarite, schoenite, and tachyhydrite. ...