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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Chilean Andes"”.
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Technologies of mining production: space, discourse, new materialities, and media
… resist the process of mining production in the Chilean Andes. Through the study of the mining company Los Pelambres, I make visible knowledge, skills, and practices that take place in a zone of socio-environmental conflict. In the dissertation, I demonstrate how the mining activity exceeds the …
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Aymara perspectives: Ethnoecological studies in Andean communities of northern Chile
… with the Aymara Indians of the northern Chilean Andes, from November 1998 through January 1999, in an attempt to understand Aymara perspectives of recent development that has taken place within their ancestral homeland. A study design was developed that would engage Aymara people directly …
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Hydrological processes in volcanic ash soils : measuring, modelling and understanding runoff generation in an undisturbed catchment
… in a small undisturbed catchment in the Chilean Andes were investigated. The research area is characterized by steep hillslopes, volcanic ash soils, undisturbed old growth forest and high rainfall amounts. The investigation of runoff generation processes in this data scarce area is of …
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Different styles of deformation of the fore-arc wedge along the Chilean convergent margin : insights from 3D numerical experiments
… of deformation of the fore-arc wedges along the Chilean convergent margin are observed to vary significantly, despite similar plate kinematic conditions. Here, I focus on the analysis of fore-arc deformation on two regions along the Chilean convergent margin at 20°-24°S and 37°-42°S. Although …