Urban development versus wetland loss in a coastal Latin American city: Lessons for sustainable land use planning

C Rojas, J Munizaga, O Rojas, C Martínez, J Pino - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Urbanization is a primary cause of wetland loss in coastal metropolitan regions. Therefore, it
challenges the preservation of biodiversity and the provision of key ecosystem services for …

Subduction zone slip variability during the last millennium, south-central Chile

T Dura, BP Horton, M Cisternas, LL Ely, I Hong… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arauco Peninsula (37°-38° S) in south-central Chile has been proposed as a
possible barrier to the along-strike propagation of megathrust ruptures, separating historical …

Holocene relative sea-level change along the tectonically active Chilean coast

E Garrett, D Melnick, T Dura, M Cisternas, LL Ely… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive relative sea-level (RSL) database for north, central, and south-
central Chile (18.5° S–43.6° S) using a consistent, systematic, and internationally …

Coastal erosion in central Chile: A new hazard?

C Martínez, M Contreras-López, P Winckler… - Ocean & coastal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The coasts of central Chile are increasingly affected by human activity. To date, there are no
clear symptoms of shoreline change in the area; however, the incidence of recent extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Patrones de urbanización en la biodiversidad de humedales urbanos en Concepción metropolitano

C Rojas, E Sepúlveda-Zúñiga, O Barbosa… - Revista de Geografía …, 2015 - SciELO Chile
La urbanización en Concepción metropolitano (36 S) en las últimas décadas ha impactado
áreas de valor ecológico, tales como humedales y lagunas. Aquí analizamos la …

Tsunami resonance and spatial pattern of natural oscillation modes with multiple resonators

R Aranguiz, PA Catalán, C Cecioni… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tsunami resonance and coupled oscillation of shelf and bays modes has been reported to
be important in tsunami wave amplification. The main objective of this work is to study the …

Chronological database for Southern Chile (35° 30'–42° S),∼ 33000 BP to present: Human implications and archaeological biases

R Campbell, D Quiroz - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
A chronological database of 398 dates (247 14 C dates, 148 thermoluminescence dates,
and 3 obsidian hydration dates), covering the early peopling period up to the present, is …

Quantifying offshore fore‐arc deformation and splay‐fault slip using drowned Pleistocene shorelines, Arauco Bay, Chile

J Jara‐Muñoz, D Melnick, P Zambrano… - … research: Solid Earth, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the deformation associated with the seismic cycle in subduction zones occurs
offshore and has been therefore difficult to quantify with direct observations at millennial …

A 7000‐year high‐resolution lake sediment record from coastal central Chile (Lago Vichuquén, 34° S): implications for past sea level and environmental variability

M Frugone‐Álvarez, C Latorre, S Giralt… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 7‐ka environmental reconstruction based on sedimentological and
geochemical data from Lago Vichuquén, a coastal eutrophic lake in central Chile (34° 48 …

[PDF][PDF] Rise and decline of Chinchorro sacred landscapes along the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert

CM Santoro, MM Rivadeneira, C Latorre… - Chungara, Revista de …, 2012 - redalyc.org
The study of complex funerary ritual development among hunters and gatherers societies
should take into account how people made up for the continuity of their social system without …