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GEOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 605-608Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G20601.1
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Andes; geomorphology; rivers and streams; groundwater; groundwater sapping
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Northernmost Chile is home to a well-preserved disequilibrium landscape of great antiquity. Contrasting drainage patterns are developed on the western slope of the Altiplano plateau. The oldest of these patterns is a now-relict parallel-patterned drainage network. In places a younger pattern, comprising a series of deeply incised canyons, or quebradas, crosscuts the older parallel-patterned network. These canyons show strong evidence of a groundwater-sapping origin. We hypothesize that, the initiation of the canyon network resulted from changes in the hydrological regime related to a drying out of climate of the forearc and to the uplift of the Altiplano plateau.
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