Landscape Modifications Ascribed to El Niño Events in Late Pre-Hispanic Coastal Peru

Marco Delle Rose ()
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Marco Delle Rose: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council of Italy, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-23

Abstract: Coastal Peru, one of the driest deserts in the world, is a key region to investigate the connection between climate processes and Earth surface responses. However, the trends in space and time of the landscape effects of El Niño events throughout the last millennium are hard to outline. A deeper understanding of geological and archaeological data in pre-Hispanic time can help to shed light on some critical questions regarding the relationship between such a coupled atmosphere–ocean phenomenon and landscape modifications. The bibliographic sources required for this purpose are scattered throughout various disciplines, ranging from physical to human sciences, and thus comprehensive databases were used to identify and screen relevant studies. The performed examination of these documents allowed us to assess strengths and weaknesses of literature hypotheses and motivate additional studies on targeted research objectives.

Keywords: desert landscape; coastal plain; paleoflood record; El Niño proxies; debris flow; slack-water deposit; braided streams; desert pavement; regolith denudation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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