Late Quaternary megafans, fans and fluvio-aeolian interactions in the Bolivian Chaco, Tropical South America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 356-357, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-88

  Latrubesse, Edgardo M ^a   Stevaux, Jose C ^b   Cremon, Edipo H ^c   May, Jan Hendrik ^d   Tatumi, Sonia H ^e   Hurtado, Martín A ^f   Bezada, Maximiliano ^g   Argollo, Jaime B ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^g Universidad Pedagógica El Libertador   (Venezuela)

^h UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Chaco; Fluvio aeolian; Megafans; Paleogeography; Quaternary; Tropical South America

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ALLUVIAL FAN; BIOME; DEFLATION; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; OROGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

BOLIVIA; GRAN CHACO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84865860860     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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