Overview
- Reviews the geological history of the island de los Estados in Tierra del Fuego
- Presents a complete new reconstruction of the palaeoenvironmental, palaeoclimatic and palaeogeographic history of the island since the Last Maximum Glacial to the present
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences (BRIEFSEARTHSYST)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book is the result of ten years’ of scientific research carried out by the authors on Isla de los Estados. The research includes their doctoral thesis and many published scientific papers related to the island.
The book is divided into two principal parts. The first part covers different social and natural aspects of this remote island and includes chapters on the scientific and historical background, physiography with topographical and hydrographical descriptions, climate and oceanographic circulation, vegetation and geology (including stratigraphy, structural geology and geological history).
The second part comprises a reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and paleogeographic history of the island from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present, correlating with other paleoecological records from the southern part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. This second part also includes a geomorphological chapter with a characterization of the principal erosive glacial landforms on Isla de los Estados constructed by means of morphometric analysis, inventories, maps, paleogeographic and glacial models, and a paleoecological chapter evaluating the palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimatic conditions that prevailed during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene times based on pollen and diatom analysis from three 14C-dated peat bogs and lakes. Finally, the book concludes with a review of the island’s archaeology and the relationship between the palaeoenvironmental history and human occupation of this island.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Juan Federico Ponce is researcher at Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC, CONICET). His interests are Quaternary environmental change, climate change, plainology, geomorphological processes, glaciations, GIS and remote sensig.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climatic and Environmental History of Isla de los Estados, Argentina
Authors: Juan Federico Ponce, Marilén Fernández
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4363-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4362-5Published: 24 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4363-2Published: 11 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-589X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 128
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Climatology, Geomorphology, Sedimentology