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Genesis evaporitica en tres areas supralitorales de Baja California : contextos sedimentarios y procesos actuales
Supratidal evaporitic dolomite at Ojo de Liebre lagoon : mineralogical and isotopic arguments for primary crystallization
Datation de dépôts littoraux du dernier interglaciaire (Sangamon) sur la côte orientale du Golfe de Californie, Mexique
Pampa del Palo : an anomalous composite marine terrace on the uprising coast of Southern Peru
Quaternary sediments along the southern Peruvian coast occur as staircase terraces of coastal and shallow-marine deposits in response to continuous uplift related to the active boundary between the Nazca and South-American plates. However, near Ilo (in the same coastal stretch) the emergent Pampa del Palo terrace consists of a relatively-thick, vertical stack of shallow-marine, coastal and lagoonal deposits that indicate a rather different geodynamic behaviour. Coastal deposits are correlatable with the successive marine highstands of isotopic stages 7 (?) and 5 (substages 5e and 5c). Combining aerial photo-interpretation, geomorphological mapping, sedimentological analysis, chronostratigraphical data, and structural observations, the Pampa del Palo feature is interpreted as a faulted block that moved independently of the remaining southern Peruvian coast and, for some time between the end of Middle Pleistocene (before ca. 220 ka) and the early Late Pleistocene (ca. 120 ka), it rose more slowly or was even down-faulted relative to the rest of the southern Peruvian margin. The independent block movements ceased after substage 5e, when the Pampa del Palo "terrace" was incorporated into the regional uplift of the area. Since ca. 100 ka, measured uplift rate in the Ilo area amounted up to 160 mm/1000 y when the area has been affected by a few active, NE-SE trending faults only. (Résumé d'auteur
Quaternary shorelines in Southern Peru : a record of global sea-level fluctuations and tectonic uplift in Chala Bay
Interprétation des images spatiales du secteur de Santa Rosalia (Basse Californie, Mexique) et le problème de l'ouverture du Golfe de Californie
Fault tectonics of the Baja California peninsula and the opening of the sea of Cortez, Mexico
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