Author: Federico A. Daus
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Category : Argentina
Languages : es
Pages : 256

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Category : Geology
Languages : es
Pages : 808

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Author: Chalmers Moyes Clapperton
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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This monograph reviews the nature of Quaternary environmental changes over the largest continent in the Southern Hemisphere. Moreover, since South America makes a transect across most climatic belts of an entire hemisphere, it provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of changing Quaternary climates on a variety of environments. It also forms the basis for judging the synchrony or non-synchrony of Quaternary climatic changes between hemispheres and this has important implications for climatic modelling.As South America has a dynamic tectonic regime along its western margin, 3 chapters discuss the geomorphological impact of Quaternary tectonics and volcanism. The following 6 chapters integrate evidence for Quaternary changes in the great alluvial basins of the Continent Orinoco, Amazon, Paranaacute;) and in the contiguous highland massifs (Guyana, Brazil, Patagonia). As parts of the Andes have been high enough to support glaciers since the late Miocene, 5 chapters review the nature and consequences of Quaternary glacier fluctuations. The following 4 chapters select major process-form systems that impacted the continent during the Quaternary, including geocryogenic activity, palaeolake development, palaeo-gravel formations and coastal changes. Three chapters provide the first major review of Quaternary vegetation changes in South America (primarily the Andes) deduced from palaeoecological data. The final chapter weaves most of the environmental threads together in an overall synthesis of the Quaternary of South America.The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and line diagrams. As it provides a compendium of data and analyses about Quaternary changes for a whole continent, this book should appeal to a wide range of environmental disciplines.

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Category : Natural gas
Languages : es
Pages : 634

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Author: Instituto Geográfico Argentino
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1316

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Author: J. J. Veevers
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813711843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge of each of the main sectors of the basin. After reconstructing Permian-Triassic Gondwanaland, authors from South America, South Africa, Antarctica, and Australia illustrate the relevant geology of each sector in maps and time-space diagrams under

Author: Carlos Alberto Cingolani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319501534
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Onno Oncken
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540486844
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.

Author: Noble David Cook
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

Author: Doeko Goosen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789061640042
Category : Llanos
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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