Late cenozoic glaciations in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

J Rabassa - Developments in quaternary sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter overviews the Patagonian and Fuegian glaciations—
starting in the Late Miocene, when the junction of global, cooler climatic conditions, and the …

A review of Tertiary climate changes in southern South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Part 1: Oceanic conditions

JP Le Roux - Sedimentary Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Oceanic conditions around southern South America and the Antarctic Peninsula have a
major influence on climate patterns in these subcontinents. During the Tertiary, changes in …

Chronology of the Late Cenozoic Patagonian glaciations and their correlation with biostratigraphic units of the Pampean region (Argentina)

J Rabassa, AM Coronato, M Salemme - Journal of South American Earth …, 2005 - Elsevier
The absolute chronology of the Patagonian glaciations is one of the most complete in the
world and probably the best available for the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica. The …

Chronostratigraphy and “Land-Mammal Ages” in the Cenozoic of southern South America: principles, practices, and the “Uquian” problem

AL Cione, EP Tonni - Journal of Paleontology, 1995 - cambridge.org
The concept of “land-mammal age” as developed in South America is examined. The
“Uquian Land-mammal age” is used as a study case.“Land-mammal age” parataxonomy is …

Changes of mammal assemblages in the pampean region (Argentina) and their relation with the Plio-Pleistocene boundary

EP Tonni, MT Alberdi, JL Prado, MS Bargo… - Palaeogeography …, 1992 - Elsevier
A gradual impoverishment of autochthonous mammals in the southeastern pampean region
(central eastern Argentina) during the Late Cenozoic is detected. It is partially coeval to the …

A quantitative model of magnetic enhancement in loessic soils

MJ Orgeira, R Egli, RH Compagnucci - The Earth's magnetic interior, 2011 - Springer
We present a quantitative model for the climatic dependence of magnetic enhancement in
loessic soils. The model is based on the widely accepted hypothesis that ultrafine magnetite …

A 3.3-Ma impact in Argentina and possible consequences

PH Schultz, M Zarate, W Hames, C Camilión, J King - Science, 1998 - science.org
Enigmatic glassy materials (escorias) and red bricklike materials (tierras cocidas) occur at a
restricted stratigraphic level (the top of the Chapadmalal Formation). Materials from one …

The ensenada and buenos aires formations (Pleistocene) in a quarry near la plata, Argentina

EP Tonni, P Nabel, AL Cione, M Etchichury… - Journal of South …, 1999 - Elsevier
An interdisciplinary study of a section in a quarry near La Plata sheds new light on the
geologic, climatic, and biologic evolution of the northeastern Pampean area of Argentina …

Los Chinchillidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) fósiles de la República Argentina: sistemática, historia evolutiva y biogeográfica, significado bioestratigráfico y …

LL Rasia - 2016 - sedici.unlp.edu.ar
Los roedores conforman el Orden más numeroso de mamíferos vivientes. Dentro de este
grupo, los caviomorfos representan un clado eminentemente sudamericano con una …

Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections

AL Cione, EP Tonni - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 1996 - Elsevier
Recently MacFadden et al.(1993) described undiferentiated Montehermosan-
Chapadmalalan sections at Inchasi in Bolivia. The supposed failure to correlate more …