The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna in the Pampa of southern Brazil

RP Lopes, JC Pereira, L Kerber… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Earth, wind and fire: Interactions between Quaternary environmental dynamics and human occupation on the southern coast of Brazil

L Alessandretti, PCF Giannini, L Warren… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The southern coast of Brazil has been settled in different episodes between ca. 7.5 and 0.5
ka before the present by hunter-fisher-gatherers, shell mound builders of the pre-colonial …

Geomorphological and stratigraphic evolution of a fluvial incision in the coastal plain and inner continental shelf in southern Brazil

EG Barboza, SR Dillenburg, RP Lopes, MLCC Rosa… - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

The progradational Curumim barrier in southern Brazil: An archive of sea-level changes, and cyclic aeolian activity in the Holocene

SR Dillenburg, EG Barboza, PA Hesp, MLCC Rosa… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper discusses a model of coastal barrier progradation where the development of a
prograded plain was a product of the successive formation of foredune ridges followed by …

Terraces, reefs, and valleys along the Brazil northeast outer shelf: deglacial sea-level archives?

MP Gomes, H Vital, AW Droxler - Geo-Marine Letters, 2020 - Springer
Morphological features on low-latitude continental shelves have recorded past sea level
fluctuations. This study aims to recognize and interrogate, on the Rio Grande do Norte (RN …

Onshore-offshore trends in the temporal resolution of molluscan death assemblages: how age-frequency distributions reveal Quaternary sea-level history

M Do Nascimento Ritter, F Erthal, MA Kosnik… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Surficial shell accumulations from shallow marine settings are typically averaged over
centennial-to-millennial time scales and dominated by specimens that died in the most …

[PDF][PDF] The paleoecology of Pleistocene giant megatheriid sloths: stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) of co-occurring Megatherium and Eremotherium from southern Brazil

RP Lopes, SR Dillenburg, JC Pereira… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2021 - academia.edu
The Pampa in subtropical Brazil (State of Rio Grande do Sul) is the only area of South
America known so far where fossils of the Pleistocene giant megatheriid sloths Megatherium …

Late Pleistocene-Holocene fossils from Mirim lake, Southern Brazil, and their paleoenvironmental significance: I-vertebrates

RP Lopes, JC Pereira, SR Dillenburg, SH Tatumi… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mirim Lake is located in the southern Brazilian/northeastern Urugayan coastal plain. Fossils
of mollusks have been discovered on its shores since the XIX century, and in recent years …

Datação por luminescência opticamente estimulada (LOE) nas cristas de praia do delta do rio Paraíba do Sul (RJ): considerações sobre a evolução geomorfológica …

TB da Rocha, SC De Vasconcelos… - Revista brasileira …, 2019 - rbgeomorfologia.org.br
As cristas de praia são feições arenosas construídas pela ação das ondas que marcam
posições pretéritas da linha de costa, em função de flutuações no nível do mar e condições …

[HTML][HTML] Degradation of a transgressive coastal Dunefield by pines plantation and strategies for recuperation (Lagoa Do Peixe National Park, Southern Brazil)

L Portz, RP Manzolli, J Alcántara-Carrió… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The transgressive dunefield of the Lagoa de Peixe Natural Park was modified drastically
due to intensive pine plantation and the leeward development of the associated degraded …