Uplift of quaternary shorelines in eastern Patagonia: Darwin revisited

Geomorphology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 121-142

  Pedoja, Kevin ^a   Regard, Vincent ^b,c,d   Husson, Laurent ^e,f   Martinod, Joseph ^b,c,d   Guillaume, Benjamin ^g   Fucks, Enrique ^h   Iglesias, Maximiliano ⁱ   Weill, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^g ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Coastal sequences; Passive margin; Patagonia; Quaternary; South America; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ELEVATION; GEODYNAMICS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PASSIVE MARGIN; QUATERNARY; SHORELINE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

EID: 79951774859     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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