Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5410-615-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Gewicht: 498 g

This volume on the Quaternary period of South America and the Antarctic Peninsular emphasizes the palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic approaches. It is intended to help correlate South American environmental events and endogenous episodes with equivalents in other parts of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabassa, Jorge

Salemme, Monica

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Late Quaternary glaciers advances in the Ecuadorian Andes; submarine outcrops underneath shoreface-connected sand ridges, outer Bahia Blanca Estuary, Argentina; Upper Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the northern coastal plain of Rio Grande de Sol, Brazil; a synchronous response of Patagonian glaciers to historic climatic change; submerged moraines offshore northern Tierra del Fuelgo. (Part contents).