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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …