Landscape and drainage evolution during the Cenozoic in the Salinas Grandes Basin, Andean Plateau of NW Argentina

Endorheic basins are distinctive features of the modern Andean plateau. These basins record thick Neogene-to-Modern evaporite successions that are considered as the onset of internal drainage and aridity. Some isolated older (Paleogene) evaporites and intermontane depocenters have been also described across the Argentine Puna, suggesting that some degree of hydrological isolation would have pre-dated the main Miocene-Pliocene plateau uplift....