Abstract The Late Pleistocene-early Holocene faunal turnover in South America was
characterized by the extinction of all mammals with body mass> 300 kg and several smaller …

This paper describes the evolution of a sector of the southern coastal plain of the Pelotas
Basin, southern Brazil, between the last Pleistocene sea-level lowstand and the Holocene …

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 …

Na costa oceânica do Rio Grande do Sul, muitos dos segmentos costeiros que estão em
processo de erosão vem sendo urbanizados. O estudo do impacto de eventos de alta …

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 …

Sea-level rise is a problem increasingly affecting coastal areas worldwide. The existence of
free and open-source models to estimate the sea-level impact can contribute to improve …

The southern Brazilian coastal area harbors one of the largest wetland systems of South
America, important for its plant and animal biodiversity and ecosystems services provided for …

Abstract The Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul state (CPRS), southern Brazil,
encompasses Quaternary barrier-lagoon depositional systems developed in response to …

Coarse shore/berm ridges comprising mollusk shells are peculiar morphological features
occurring in some beaches globally, generally wave-built, generated during storms and high …

Anomalocardia flexuosa is a bivalve that inhabits shallow, low hydrodynamics coastal
environments of normal to brackish salinity, currently distributed from the Caribbean up to …