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    Evolution of the semi-enclosed basins and surrounding coastal plains adjacent to the Pampean Region, Argentina

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    The coastal plains adjacent to the Pampean region in eastern Argentina evolved during the Holocene in response to interaction between sea level fluctuations and different littoral dynamic factors in such a way that several sedimentary environments developed. Evolutionary stages can be synthesised in three periods: 1) the post-LGM transgression, when landward migrating coastal barriers extended on the present shelf under the effect of a dominant northward littoral drift; 2) the last stages of the transgression (between 8000 and 6000 years BP), when the rising sea flooded the Alto Marítimo (a pre-Holocene positive morphological feature which in previous times separated the course of the de la Plata river from the open sea), resulting in a new coastal configuration in which the presence of two headlands, Punta Piedras (in the north) and Villa Gesell (in the south), influenced the coastal processes so changing the original regional northward littoral drift into cell-type circulation systems; 3) between 6000 years BP and the present, when progradation processes characterised by barriers and beach ridges development dominated as a result of the sea level fall and an excess of sediment supply. As a result, coastal semi-enclosed basins located in between the headlands, such as Samborombón bay and Mar Chiquita lagoon, became the main depocenters where low-energy conditions (coastal lagoons, tidal flats and marshes) prevailed due to its isolation from the open-sea by the barriers and ridges. Interaction between southward migration of coastal environments associated to the northern headland and northward migration of those related to the southern headland was a very important process in shaping the present morphology of the area

    Morphosedimentary characterlzation ofthe Coastal fíats between the Paraná Guazú River and the localitíes of Gualeguay and Ibicuy. Entre Ríos province, Argentina

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    The Paraná River in terms of length and water discharge is the second after the Amazon in South America, and it generates a large delta when it reaches the Rio de La Plata estuary. It is possible to differentiate a number of sedimentary environments in this delta: permanent lagoons, the Ibicuy Unit, the coastal lagoon, deltas and smaller estuaries, parallel beaches, tidal flats, a bay, levees and meander belts, and the lower delta plain. The Ibicuy Unit is a wave-dominated delta, which was strongly affected by wavy action during an exceptional episode of the Paraná River in a high sea-level state. The parallel beach distribution together with the development of the beach ridge reflects the different sea level falling episodes until its current positio

    Programa Nacional de Cartas Geológicas de la República Argentina

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    El trabajo que se sube fue escaneado de la única copia existente en la Biblioteca SEGEMAR-IGRM, y puede no corresponder al trabajo en su edición final.Fil: Parker, Gerardo. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Paterlini, C.M. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Violante, R.A. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Pastor Costa, I. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Marcolini, S. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Cavallotto, J.L. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Martínez, H.C. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: de León, Alejandro J. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Cannilla, H. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.El presente trabajo refleja los resultados obtenidos como consecuencia de la investigación geológica y geofísica realizada en un sector del Mar Argentino a partir de la década del ochenta. El mismo forma parte de un proyecto mayor cuyo objetivo es lograr, mediante la ejecución de relevamientos sistemáticos y progresivos en áreas reducidas, el conocimiento del suelo y subsuelo poco profundo del Margen Continental Argentino aplicado a fines científicos, evaluación de recursos naturales y cuestiones de soberanía. El área cubierta en esta primera etapa de la tarea abarcó la Plataforma lnterior del norte bonaerense y el frente del Río de la Plata. El método consistió en la utilización de técnicas clásicas de levantar::nientos geológico-geofísicos en aguas someras como sísmica de reflexión de alta resolución, sonar de barrido lateral, sondas ecoicas, muestreos de sedimentos y fotografías submarinas. La interpretación y análisis llevados a cabo en gabinete y laboratorio se complementaron con información bibliográfica, que aportó datos batimétricos, sedimentológicos, geocronológicos y esquemas estratigráficos con los cuales se correlacionó geológicas de la región y delinear aspectos relacionados con su evolución i durante el Cenozoico superior, resultados que se concretaron en la confección de un mapa geológico a escala 1 :500.000. Los rasgos 1 morfológicos, entre los cuales se destaca la Terraza Rioplatense -que es el . sector sumergido situado entre el Frente de Costa y la isobata de 70 m en el cual queda comprendida la Plataforma Interior- son consecuencia de la interacción entre las fluctuaciones del nivel del mar, el relieve del sustrato, la configuración de antiguas líneas de costas, las condiciones oceanográficas, el aporte de sedimentos y posibles eventos tectónicos. La distribución de sedimentos superficiales, áreas de afloramientos y estructuras reflejan los 1 procesos sedimentarios actuantes y muestra la interrelación entre las arenas que tapizan la plataforma, producto de la migración de barreras litorales durante la transgresión holocena, y los depósitos arcillosos progradantes depositados por el Río de la Plata. La secuencia estratigráfica está constituida por cinco Unidades Sismoestratigráficas compuestas por sedimentos marinos que hacia las llanuras costeras adyacentes gradan a continentales, las cuales conforman un paquete sedimentario resultante de la ocurrencia de eventos marinos transgresivo-regresivos de origen principalmente glacioeustático, cuatro acaecidos durante el Plio-Pleistoceno y uno durante el Holoceno

    Pre-hispanic settlements in hydrometeorologically susceptible areas during the late Holocene: The Upper Delta of the Paraná River case

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    In this paper, we present the results of the geoarchaeological studies carried out in two archaeological localities of the Upper Delta of the Paraná River (Argentina). The main objective of these studies is to depict the pre-Hispanic strategies involved in the colonization and settlement of southern South America wetlands. Paraná Delta is one of the most conspicuous areas of these lowlands and comprises a large wetland macrosystem. Its current geomorphological configuration was established after the last transgressive mid-Holocene event c. 600014C yr BP. In this environment, a high ecological heterogeneity, with diverse and abundant tropical and temperate biota, was developed. These features were important factors to the human colonization and utilization of these wetlands. However, this environment has the highest hydrometeorological susceptibility of La Plata basin. This susceptibility had an impact on settlement systems and resource exploitation strategies established in the area since at least 200014C yr BP. These strategies involved at least two settlement types: semi-permanent residential camps and transitory camps oriented to exploit particular resources. The semi-permanent settlements were located in anthropogenic elevated mounds, locally known as ‘cerritos’, and were not subjected to seasonal inundations. Conversely, the transitory camps are found in levees exposed to recurrent flooding.Fil: Castiñeira Latorre, Carola. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Mineralogía y Petrología; ArgentinaFil: Apolinaire Vaamonde, Eduardo Saúl. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Blasi, Adriana. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Mineralogía y Petrología; ArgentinaFil: Bonomo, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Politis, Gustavo Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Bastourre, Maria Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Mari, Florencia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas; Argentin

    Natural and human forcing in recent geomorphic change; case studies in the Rio de la Plata basin

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    An analysis of geomorphic system`s response to change in human and natural drivers in some areas within the Rio de la Plata basin is presented The aim is to determine whether an acceleration of geomorphic processes has taken place in recent years and, if so, to what extent it is due to natural (climate) or human (land-use) drivers Study areas of different size, socio-economic and geomorphic conditions have been selected: the Rio de la Plata estuary and three sub-basins within its watershed Sediment cores were extracted and dated ((210)Pb) to determine sedimentation rates since the end of the 19th century. Rates were compared with time series on rainfall as well as human drivers such as population, GDP, livestock load, crop area, energy consumption or cement consumption, all of them related to human capacity to disturb land surface Data on river discharge were also gathered Results obtained indicate that sedimentation rates during the last century have remained essentially constant in a remote Andean basin, whereas they show important increases in the other two, particularly one located by the Sao Paulo metropolitan area Rates in the estuary are somewhere in between It appears that there is an intensification of denudation/sedimentation processes within the basin. Rainfall remained stable or varied very slightly during the period analysed and does not seem to explain increases of sedimentation rates observed. Human drivers, particularly those more directly related to capacity to disturb land surface (GDP, energy or cement consumption) show variations that suggest human forcing is a more likely explanation for the observed change in geomorphic processes It appears that a marked increase in denudation, of a ""technological"" nature, is taking place in this basin and leading to an acceleration of sediment supply This is coherent with similar increases observed in other regions (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reservedPlan Nacional de I+D+I, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Spain[CAMGEO]Plan Nacional de I+D+I, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Spain[CGL2006-11431]Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP, Sao Carlos, Brasil)MEC, Spai

    The Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Valleys of the Undulated Pampa, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

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    A depositional unit called DU2 identified for the period MIS 3 (ca- 30,000-60,000 yr. B.P.) formed by only one sedimentary facies (F3) was found in the Luján and Salto-Arrecifes rivers basins. F3 is a fluvio?lacustrine unit that overlies in erosive unconformity over eolian sediments with ages of 56,400 ± 6,500 and 50,400 ± 10,200 years B.A. and is unconformably covered by another eolian vitroclastic sandy loess deposit, dated as 32,000 ±4,000 years (Infrared Stimulated Luminescence, IRSL) (Blasi, et al. 2010). It represents the recurrence of ephemeral fluvial streamlets and the development of temporary pools by subsequent damming of channels. It corresponds lithologically to sandy muddy gravel, gravelly muddy sand, gravelly mud, olive to pale olive feldspar and quartz sands, bearing extinct mollusks such as Heleobia ameghini and Diplodon lujanensis. Radiocarbon chronologies obtained on monospecific samples of Cyprideis salebrosa hartmanni and Heleobia ameghini yielded ages of 37,710 ± 840 years 14C B.P. and >40,000 years 14C B.P., respectively. Furthermore, the age obtained through the IRSL technique was of 44,000 ± 6,500 years. Based upon the analyzed bioproxies (malacological, phytoliths and diatomological content) F3 accumulated under variable climatic conditions, ranging from temperate to colder and from subhumid to drier. According to the exhaustive stratigraphic identification, it is proposed that in NE Buenos Aires Province, the so-called Undulated Pampa region, the sediments that were accumulated during MIS3 occur only in the central portion of the studied fluvial basins. This prompted two hypotheses related to the existence of a particular drainage pattern for the Late Pleistocene, different from the present one, and subsequent tectonic controls that allowed the identification of DU2 sediments only in some of the analyzed sections.Fil: Blasi, Adriana María. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Mineralogía y Petrología; Argentina. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas; ArgentinaFil: Castiñeira Latorre, Carola. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Mineralogía y Petrología; ArgentinaFil: Cusminsky, Gabriela Catalina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; ArgentinaFil: Carignano, Ana Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Paleozoología Invertebrados; Argentin
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