
Soil salt crust after a rainy day in the Atacama Desert
by Franko Arenas Díaz, Departamento de Geología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
This photograph was taken in the area of Yungay, within the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert after an unusual day of rain.
Taken on 19
July
2018
Submitted on 11 February 2019
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- South America (289)
- Chile (72)
- Exact location (-69.9252 W, -24.0792 S)
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salt, geomorphology, atacama desert, arid soils, chile, rainfall
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Credit: Franko Arenas Díaz (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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