Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula: With Selected Papers of the International Symposium on the Holocene of South America, Inqua Commi

ISBN-13: 9789061917847 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 380 str.

Jorge Rabassa;Jorge Rabassa

Opis

This volume of quaternary vertebrate palaeontology in southern South America contains a range of topics from quaternary vertebrate palaeontology in Argentina and biostratigraphy and chronological scale of uppermost Cenozoic in the Pampean area to taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments.

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Spis treści

1. Nature and origin of recent sediments in the Scotia Sea (northeastern Antarctic Peninsula) 2. Character and ages of Pleistocene drifts in a transect across the Strait of Magellan 3. Shallow marine and fluvial environments of Quaternary deposits in Pehuen-Có Beach, Buenos Aires, Argentina 4. Pollen and spores from the type locality of Puesto Berrondo soil at the Rio Salado, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 5. Quaternary landforms of southeastern San Juan Province, Argentina 6. Taphonomy and paleoecology of Holocene molluscs from the western margin of the Merin Lagoon (Villa Soriano Fm, Uruguay) 7. Statistic study of the Holocene fresh water malacofauna from the Agua Blanca Formation, Arroyo Napostá Grande, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 8. Holocene macrobenthic molluscan associations from northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 9. A Late Holocene dry period in the Argentine plains 10. Pollen analysis of discontinuous stratigraphical sequences: Holocene at Cerro La China locality (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 11. A Quaternary diatom flora and invertebrate fauna from Arroyo 12. Aquifer characteristics of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 13. Geohydrological aspects of the Holocene in Argentina 14. Latitude of the surface high-pressure belt over western South America during the last 500 years as inferred from tree-ring analysis 15. Dendrochronological studies in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina 16. Late-Glacial and Holocene of Argentine Tierra del Fuego 17. Preliminary results of the Argentine-Polish Paleolimnological Project at Lago Yehuin, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Southern tip of South America): Evolution of biota and landscape at the marginal zone of the last glaciation 18. Fossil remains of Nothofagus and other plants in Quaternary sediments of Gable Island, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

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