Fig. 1: Location of Lake Junín and drainage basin in the central Peruvian Andes. | Nature

Fig. 1: Location of Lake Junín and drainage basin in the central Peruvian Andes.

From: 700,000 years of tropical Andean glaciation

Fig. 1

Contour interval 200 m; stippled blue pattern indicates wetlands; orange arcuate lines are toes of proglacial outwash fans; red arcuate lines are 10Be-dated MIS 2 and 3 moraines6; purple lines are 10Be-dated pre-MIS 3 moraines6; grey outline is the drainage basin (see Methods). Inset map: black line demarcates the Amazon drainage basin; solid green fill is Perú;  black circles indicate Andean records discussed in the text: 1, Lake Junín, Perú; 2, Sabana de Bogotá9; 3, Lake Titicaca10.

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