Late Quaternary glaciation history of Isla de los Estados, southeasternmost South America

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 521-534

  Möller, Per ^a   Hjort, Christian ^a   Björck, Svante ^a   Rabassa, Jorge ^b,c   Ponce, Juan Federico ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Glacial chronology; Glacial geology; Glacial sedimentology; Isla de los Estados; Quaternary history; South America; Tierra del Fuego

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CIRQUE; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FJORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MORAINE; NUNATAK; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TERRAIN; WEICHSELIAN; WISCONSINAN;

ARGENTINA; STATEN ISLAND [TIERRA DEL FUEGO]; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(PRV) ARGENTINA];

EID: 77952289344     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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