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Figure 8.6 Place-names and principal salars of the Central Andes Altiplano.
These fi ndings on the Quaternary of South America put some conclud-
ing touches on the ecosystem history of the New World. They are of consid-
erable importance for reconstructing the local vegetation and environment
(e.g., Heusser 2003), but collectively the information has broader appli-
cations. The fi ndings offer valuable analogs for reading the more ancient
and less clear history of environments and biotas, and they add more times
and more places supporting the generalization that neither from lowlands
to páramo, nor from pole to pole, have Neogene and Quaternary climates
and biotas been stable for geologically long periods of time. We know en-
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