Atacama Desert

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• Great, too, are the resources of such stretches of land as the Atacama desert or the islands off the Pacific coast of South America whence guano is shipped to all quarters of the globe. Nationhood Within the Empire
• The growing media presence by a patch of rock and sand in the Atacama desert meant that you would trek from the camp up the hill to view the drilling, interview engineers and miners 'relatives, then trek down again, only to see a different camp. How the media in Chile helped focus the eyes of the world on the miners
• Lush fur and watchful eyes help this gray fox survive in the harsh, often cold climate of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.
• Preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert and an elaborate deathbed treatment, the oldest mummies in the world have gone on display in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
• Thus, the suite of sulfates found in the oxide zone of the Chuquicamata copper deposit and the nitrates and iodates found in the caliche deposits of northern Chile owe their existence to the extreme aridness of the great Atacama Desert.
• The new telescope sits among four other high-powered instruments on the summit of Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert, an optimum location far enough from city lights to view celestial wonders.
• The scientists then unearthed spear points, hearths, and bones of camel-like creatures and other animals at 39 Atacama Desert camps, located on the shores of 20 dry lakebeds.
• Molecular analysis of a 11,700 year-old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile. Archive 2006-03-01
• A nervous llama lies in the back of a pickup truck amid the moonscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
• In Chile's Atacama Desert, you'll ascend to 14,800 feet in the Andes to walk among spouting geysers and fumaroles, see cool salt formations in the Valley of the Moon, and visit a pink flamingo colony on Chaxa Lagoon.