Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental significance of late Pleistocene pedogenic carbonates ('Caliche Cordão') from the coastal Pampa of southern Brazil

RP Lopes, JC Pereira, SR Dillenburg, AN Sial… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The pedogenic carbonates found in Pleistocene units of the coastal Brazilian Pampa,
informally designated as 'Caliche Cordão', include rhizocretions, soft masses and isolated or …

High-Frequency Sequences in the Quaternary of Pelotas Basin (coastal plain): a record of degradational stacking as a function of longer-term base-level fall

MLCC Rosa, EG Barboza, VS Abreu… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
The aim of this work was to analyze the sedimentary record of the coastal plain of Pelotas
Basin, placing it in the context of temporal and spatial scales, and proposing a stratigraphic …

Molluskan Grazing Traces (Ichnogenus Radulichnus Voigt, 1977) on a Pleistocene Bivalve from Southern Brazil, With the Proposal of a New Ichnospecies

RP Lopes, JC Pereira - Ichnos, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The ichnogenus Radulichnus Voigt, is recorded for the first time from a bivalve,
Anomalocardia brasiliana (Gmelin,), in a late Pleistocene molluskan assemblage from the …

The sea-level highstand correlated to marine isotope stage (MIS) 7 in the coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

RP Lopes, SR Dillenburg, CL Schultz… - Anais da Academia …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
The coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, includes four barrier-
lagoon depositional systems formed by successive Quaternary sea-level highstands that …

[HTML][HTML] Cordão Formation: loess deposits in the southern coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

RP Lopes, SR Dillenburg, CL Schultz - Anais da Academia Brasileira …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Loess consists of silt-dominated sediments that cover~ 10% of the Earth's surface. In
southern South America it occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and its …

Stratigraphy and evolution of the late Pleistocene (MIS 5) coastal Barrier III in southern Brazil

RP Lopes, JC Pereira, F Caron, SR Dillenburg… - Quaternary …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The structure and origin of the Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage [MIS] 5) coastal Barrier III
in southern Brazil were investigated through analysis of lithofacies, numerical ages, and …

The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil

RP Lopes, SR Dillenburg, JF Savian… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract The Santa Vitória Formation is a lithostratigraphic unit known for its fossil
assemblage of Pleistocene mammals, established in 1973 from sediments exposed along …

Geological and taphonomic significance of electron spin resonance (ESR) ages of Middle-Late Pleistocene marine shells from barrier-lagoon systems of Southern …

RP Lopes, JC Pereira, A Kinoshita… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul state (CPRS), southern Brazil,
encompasses Quaternary barrier-lagoon depositional systems developed in response to …

Holocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of a native ecosystem on the coastal plain of southern Brazil through multi-proxy analysis

ET Salgado, AMP Mizusaki, KF Chueng… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Butiazal de Tapes (30° 31′ 39.86 ″S, 51° 21′ 31.02 ″W) region is located
in southern Brazil on the western shore of the Patos Lagoon and presents a remnant of a …

[PDF][PDF] On the presence of Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Pilosa) in fossiliferous deposits of the coastal plain of southern Brazil

RP Lopes, JC Pereira - Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 2019 - researchgate.net
The presence of the extinct sloth Megatherium americanum Cuvier in Pleistocene deposits
of the Coastal Plain of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, has been mentioned …