Late Pleistocene stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Tarija-Padcaya basin (Bolivian Andes)

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-179

  Coltorti, M ^a   Pieruccini, P ^a   Paredes, F R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Dpto de Estructuras y Ciencias de Los Materiales   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE CAP; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALTIPLANO; BOLIVIA; TARIJA BASIN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77953689937     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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