Geophysical evidence of multiple glacier advances in Lago Fagnano (54°S), southernmost Patagonia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1188-1200

  Waldmann, Nicolas ^a   Ariztegui, Daniel ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^b   Coronato, Andrea ^c   Austin Jr , James A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DEGLACIATIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LAKE FLOORS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL; PATAGONIA; REGIONAL MAPS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL BEHAVIORS; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIERS;

DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOTECTONICS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

FAGNANO LAKE; ISLA GRANDE DE TIERRA DEL FUEGO; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 77950594124     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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