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2. Rock glacier and solifluction lobes groundwater as nutrient sources and refugia for unique macroinvertebrate assemblages in a mountain ecosystem of the North Patagonian Andes
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Agustina, Reato, Nicolás, Martínez R., Luis, Epele B., Guido, Borzi, and Eleonora, Carol
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- 2024
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3. Old and new specimens of a poorly known glyptodont from the Miocene of Patagonia and their biochronological implications
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Laureano Raúl González Ruiz, Agustina Reato, Martín Cano, and Oscar Martínez
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Mammalia ,Glyptodontidae ,Palaehoplophorus ,Miocene ,Río Mayo Formation ,Patagonia ,Fossil man. Human paleontology ,GN282-286.7 ,Paleontology ,QE701-760 - Abstract
The Palaehoplophorini is a tribe of glyptodonts represented by fragmentary specimens for which the oldest records occur in the Pedregoso and Río Mayo formations (middle–late Miocene) in Patagonia (Argentina). The mammal fossils from those formations were the basis for the recognition of the Mayoan fauna, placed between the Friasian sensu stricto/Colloncuran–Laventan and the Chasicoan faunas. The only identified glyptodont from Río Mayo Formation is Palaehoplophorus meridionalis represented only by its type material (i.e., caudal tube) and the precise provenance is unknown. We describe a new specimen of Palaehoplophorus meridionalis collected in the Río Mayo Formation represented by associated osteoderms of the dorsal carapace and postcranial elements, plus part of the type and assigned specimens that remain unpublished from the old collection. This is the first description of osteoderms from the dorsal carapace of this species and postcranial elements (the first for a Palaehoplophorini), and the first glyptodont with precise provenance from Río Mayo Formation. As result of improving the description and emending the diagnosis, we agree with previous authors about the basal position of Palaehoplophorus meridionalis within the tribe. Finally, we review the Glyptodontidae association of the Mayoan fauna, which are exclusively represented by Palaehoplophorini (Palaehoplophorus meridionalis and Palaehoplophoroides rothi) and Glyptodontidae indet. This association supports a greater affinity of this fauna with the younger Chasicoan than with the older Friasian sensu stricto/Colloncuran–Laventan faunas.
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- 2017
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4. Hydrochemical and isotopic composition of periglacial watersheds in Northern Patagonian Andes
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Agustina Reato, Eleonora Carol, and Guido Borzi
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Geology ,Earth-Surface Processes - Published
- 2023
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5. Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial and Holocene of Patagonia
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Jorge Rabassa, Andrea Coronato, Oscar Martínez, and Agustina Reato
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- 2022
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6. Role of rock glaciers and other high-altitude depositional units in the hydrology of the mountain watersheds of the Northern Patagonian Andes
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Agustina Reato, Guido Borzi, Oscar A. Martínez, and Eleonora Carol
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Environmental Engineering ,Rivers ,Altitude ,Environmental Chemistry ,Water ,Ice Cover ,Seasons ,Hydrology ,Pollution ,Waste Management and Disposal - Abstract
Mountain depositional landforms are important units for freshwater supply in regions with water deficits and significant droughts during the summer season. In the Northern Patagonian Andes, the cold climatic events during the Pleistocene period left a large number of glacial and periglacial depositional landforms, among which a glacial cirque called La Hoya stands out. An analysis of geomorphological landforms, climatic data, soil temperature, flows in springs and streams, electrical conductivity measurements, and stable isotope determination of water, were made to study the hydrological role of these depositional mountain landforms. In this region, precipitations are concentrate during the winter season when an important snow cover accumulates and persists until spring. During winter and spring seasons, part of the snowmelt infiltrates, being kept in solid states inside the depositional landforms, and part of it contributes to the runoff between winter and summer. At the ends of spring and early summer, the snowmelt is the main water contribution to the La Hoya watershed. During late summer and autumn, the most important water contribution is from groundwater discharge. Where glacial ice is absent and the presence of permafrost is limited or non-existent, morphosedimentary units are important landforms for water storage and streams sustenance. This is the case of the city of Esquel, which depends exclusively on the "Los Bandidos" stream for water supply, which is sustained throughout the year by these landforms. The increase in temperature and the decrease in precipitation in this region highlights the importance of the high-altitude depositional landforms for the capture, storage, and distribution of water resources in the Northern Patagonian Andes.
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- 2021
7. Paisagem granítica no Plúton Munro (Tapera de Burgos), província de Chubut, Patagônia, Argentina
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Emilia Yolanda Aguilera, Oscar Martínez, Eugenio Aragón, Agustina Reato, and Jorge Rabassa
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Landform ,Pluton ,Munro Pluton ,Weathering ,Paisaje granítico ,Front (oceanography) ,Geochemistry ,Argentina ,Regolith ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 [https] ,Tectonics ,Meteorización ,Patagonia ,Geología ,Fracturas ,Granitic landscape ,Paleogene ,Fractures ,Tafoni ,Geology - Abstract
The Munro Pluton is located in the extra-Andean region of the province of Chubut, Argentina, in northern Patagonia, northeast of the Sierra de Tecka and northwest of the Sierra de Languineo. It is a sub-volcanic pluton with a SHRIMP age of 60 Ma (Paleocene?). Studies of fission tracks on apatites of the studied region suggest that the exhumation of the region took place during the Paleogene, indicating that the lapse since its emplacement until its exhumation, took less than 35 Ma, and that the pluton has been exposed to weathering at least since the Miocene until present times. This pluton has ellipsoidal shape and a surface of 25 km2 and it is intruded by two dyke systems. The Munro Pluton develops a landscape whose weathering front exposes fresh rocks, regolith zones and boulders immersed in regolith. Granitic landforms have been recognized at different scales. Among the bigger landforms of the granitic landscape, the following have been identified: domes (bornhardts), nubbins, koppies and smaller landforms such as boulders, flared slopes, gnammas, rills/gutters/gullies, tafoni and pseudo-bedding. Structural and textural observations allowed the inference that many of the identified landforms are generated in the sub-soil, being followed by the regolith mobilization thus exposing the paleo-weathering front. Other landforms have a tectonic component associated for their development, such as pseudo-bedding, as well as the endogenous deformations, related to the emplacement type of the Munro pluton. In general, most of the landforms are convergent as they evolve along different pathways., El Plutón Munro se ubica en la región extrandina de Chubut, al noreste de la Sierra de Tecka y al noroeste de la de la Sierra de Languineo. Es un plutón sub-volcánico con una edad SHRIMP de 60 Ma (Paleoceno?). Estudios de trazas de fisión en apatitas de la región de estudio sugieren que la exhumación de la región tuvo lugar durante el Paleógeno, indicando que desde su emplazamiento hasta la exhumación transcurrieron menos de 35 Ma, y que ha estado expuesto a la meteorización por lo menos desde el Mioceno a la actualidad. Tiene forma elipsoidal, con una superficie de 25 km2 y está intrusado por dos sistemas de diques. El Plutón Munro desarrolla un paisaje cuyo frente de meteorización expone rocas frescas, zonas de regolito y bloques inmersos en regolito. Se han reconocido geoformas a distinta escala. Entre las formas mayores del paisaje granítico se reconocieron: domos (bornhardt), nubbins, koppies y formas menores como: bloques (boulders), laderas acampanadas (flared slopes), gnammas, cárcavas (rills/gutters/gullies), tafonis y pseudo-estratificación (pseudo-bedding). Observaciones estructurales y texturales permiten inferir que muchas de las geoformas identificadas se inician en el subsuelo seguido de la movilización del regolito para exponer el antiguo frente de meteorización. Otras formas tienen asociado un componente tectónico para su desarrollo (pseudo-estratificación) así como las deformaciones endógenas vinculadas al tipo de emplazamiento del Plutón Munro. En general, la mayoría de las geoformas son convergentes a medida que evolucionan por diferentes vías., O Plúton Munro está localizado na região extra-andina da província de Chubut, Argentina, no norte da Patagônia, a nordeste da Sierra de Tecka e a noroeste da Sierra de Languineo. É um plúton subvulcânico com uma idade SHRIMP de 60 Ma (Paleoceno?). Estudos de traços de fissão em apatitas da região estudada sugerem que a exumação da região ocorreu durante o Paleógeno, indicando que o lapso desde sua localização até sua exumação, levou menos de 35 Ma, e que o plúton foi exposto ao intemperismo em pelo menos desde o Mioceno até os tempos atuais. Este plúton tem forma elipsoidal e superfície de 25 km2 e é intrudido por dois sistemas de diques. O Plútón Munro desenvolve uma paisagem cuja frente de intemperismo expõe rochas frescas, zonas de regolito e blocos imersos em regolito. Os acidentes geográficos graníticos foram reconhecidos em diferentes escalas. Entre os maiores acidentes geográficos da paisagem granítica, foram identificados os seguintes: domos (bornhardts), nubbins, koppies e pequenos acidentes geográficos, como blocos, taludes alargados, gnammas (riachos/calhas/ravinas), tafonis e pseudo-estratificação. Observações estruturais e texturais permitiram inferir que muitas das formas de relevo identificadas são geradas no subsolo, sendo acompanhadas pela mobilização do regolito, expondo assim a frente de paleo-intemperismo. Outras formas de relevo apresentam um componente tectônico associado ao seu desenvolvimento, como a pseudo-estratificação, bem como as deformações endógenas, relacionadas ao tipo de localização do plúton de Munro. Em geral, a maioria das formas de relevo éconvergente embora evoluam por diferentes caminhos., Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
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- 2020
8. Hydrological significance of rock glaciers and other periglacial landforms as sustenance of wet meadows in the Patagonian Andes
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Oscar Martínez, Alexander Cottescu, Agustina Reato, and Eleonora Silvina Carol
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Landform ,Rock glacier ,Geology ,Wetland ,Solifluction ,Water resources ,Sedimentary depositional environment ,Snowmelt ,Physical geography ,Groundwater ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
Wet meadows in mountainous areas are important environments for the ecosystem services provided, mainly those associated with the water supply to local people. In the region of the Patagonian Andes wet meadows are spatially associated with rock glaciers and other related periglacial landforms. The aim of this work was to determine the hydrological significance of these geoforms as sustenance of wet meadows in La Hoya watershed, located in Northern Patagonian Andes. We carried out a geomorphological mapping of the depositional units, wetlands, springs and streams located in the area. During fieldwork, we checked and completed this information, together with sedimentological analysis of the morphosedimentary units and hydrodynamic and salinity measurements on streams and springs. Finally, we performed hydrogeological schemes to outline the geological and geomorphological controls regulating water flows and the development of wet meadows. Results obtained show a constant flow from rock glaciers and solifluction lobes towards wet meadows during the driest period. The principal contribution of water comes from snowmelt and rain, constituting a short and intermediate-term water input. Rock glaciers and solifluction lobes constitute effective water storage depositional units, and the groundwater discharged from these landforms is constant, even during the dry season, which keeps wet meadows moist and evergreen year-round.
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- 2021
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9. Chronological implications of the nothrotheriid ‘Xyophorus’ (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Collón Curá Formation (Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina)
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Diego Brandoni, Laureano Raul Gonzalez Ruiz, Agustina Reato, and Gabriel M. Martin
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Mammals ,0106 biological sciences ,010506 paleontology ,Tortonian ,biology ,Xenarthra ,South America ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente ,Paleontology ,Folivora ,Tardigrada ,Neogene ,Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Humanities ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,Geology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The specimen described herein and assigned to ‘Xyophorus’ sp. (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada) was collected in the locality Cerro Zeballos, northwestern Chubut Province, Argentina. The fossiliferous sediments bearing the specimen are correlated with Collón Curá Formation. The specimen has the features described for other members of ‘Xyophorus’ (e.g. shape and size of the molariforms, relationship between diastema length, m1 and m2 length) and has a Diastema Length/Tooth Row Length index (DL/TRL index) of ca. 14, between that of ‘X.’ villarroeli (12.07) from the Mauri Formation, Bolivia (ca. 10.3 Ma) and that of ‘X.’ bondesioi (16.45) from Arroyo Chasicó Formation, Argentina (ca. 10–8.7 Ma). The relationship between DL/TRL index and age of the bearing sediments, would suggest a Tortonian age (late Miocene) for the deposits of Collón Curá Formation at Cerro Zeballos, which results in a ‘younger age’ compared to the middle Miocene age traditionally accepted for the Collón Curá Formation bearing the Colloncuran fauna sensu stricto. Although no absolute ages for Cerro Zeballos are available yet, the geographic proximity of Cerro Zeballos to Cushamen River (with levels dated at ca. 11.2 Ma) supports the tentative Tortonian age indicated by the presence of ‘Xyophorus’ sp. Fil: Brandoni, Diego. Provincia de Entre Ríos. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción. Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción; Argentina Fil: Gonzalez Ruiz, Laureano Raul. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia ; Argentina Fil: Reato, Agustina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia ; Argentina Fil: Martin, Gabriel Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia ; Argentina
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10. Geomorfología y geología del Cenozoico superior del Chubut extraandino con énfasis en los eventos glaciales del Pleistoceno
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Agustina Reato, Martínez, Oscar Alfredo, Aguilera, Emilia Yolanda, Perucca, Laura P., Veiga, Gonzalo Diego, and Coronato, Andrea M. J.
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Geomorfología ,Ciencias Naturales ,Geología ,Mapas ,Glaciación - Abstract
El impacto geomorfológico de las glaciaciones del Cenozoico superior en la Cordillera Nordpatagónica, es notable e indiscutible. La potente acción erosiva del hielo glacial y las formas de acumulación típica de los ambientes glaciarios, donde se incluye a los depósitos y formas de origen glacifluvial y glacilacustre, se encuentran ampliamente distribuidas en esta región, y fueron estudiadas por numerosos autores. Sin embargo, la instauración de condiciones climáticas típicas de un ambiente de climas fríos, afectó a toda la Patagonia durante las glaciaciones, ocasionando también, importantes modificaciones del paisaje en las regiones precordilleranas y extraandinas, donde el Manto de Hielo de Montaña Patagónico no tuvo influencia directa. Con el objetivo de dimensionar y caracterizar este impacto se analizó en el presente trabajo una superficie cercana a los 45.000 km2 en el noroeste de la provincia del Chubut, con énfasis en la región precordillerana y extraandina. Durante las etapas tempranas del trabajo se lograron identificar, dentro del área de estudio, sitios de mayor interés, que funcionaron como “localidades clave” en las cuales se realizaron estudios de mayor detalle. La metodología general empleada consistió en el mapeo y control de campo de productos geológicos, geomorfológicos y sedimentarios, la toma de muestras para obtención de fechados numéricos (40Ar/39Ar y C14), conteos litológicos de rodados, la elaboración de modelos digitales de elevación, la medición de parámetros ambientales (temperatura de suelo), entre otras tareas. Entre los principales resultados de este trabajo, deben mencionarse los numerosos mapas geomorfológicos de distinta escala elaborados, donde se delimitaron, describieron y ubicaron temporalmente una gran cantidad de unidades geomorfológicas, erosivas y depositacionales, muchas de las cuales no han sido mencionadas hasta el presente, indicadoras de distintas condiciones paleoambientales. En una primera etapa, se describió cada ambiente morfológico/morfosedimentario de manera aislada, donde se extrajeron los siguientes resultados y conclusiones parciales para cada uno: a) geoformas de altura; unidades de origen periglacial, nival y glacial, desarrolladas en los cordones montañosos más orientales de la Cordillera Nordpatagónica. Estas unidades se distribuyen en sus respectivas cuencas, entre los ~1400 m.s.n.m y los ~2000 m.s.n.m, formando secuencias retrogradantes en el tiempo, acorde a la elevación gradual de la Altura de la Línea de Equilibrio y a la desintegración progresiva del permafrost de montaña desde el Último Máximo Glacial (UMG) hasta la actualidad; b) numerosas unidades gravitacionales de grandes dimensiones; que caracterizan un sector acotado del área de estudio, entre el extremo oriental de la cordillera nordpatagónica y la precordillera. Estas unidades son producto del retiro de las masas de hielo de las laderas afectadas por el Manto de Hielo de Montaña Patagónico y el efecto de los procesos glacifluviales y glacilacustres en las zonas proglaciales durante esta etapa. Se las interpreta como la respuesta a procesos paraglaciales, lo que resignifica la geomorfología de los tiempos posglaciales en la zona estudiada; c) Bajos cerrados; especialmente aquellos de características someras que desarrollaron sistemas de líneas de costa, ubicados en la región extraandina. La Laguna de Agnia es uno de los sitios clave para estudiar este tipo de ambientes. Por un lado, el análisis detallado de la estratigrafía de los alrededores de dicha laguna y la obtención de un fechado 40Ar/39Ar en basaltos aledaños, permitió elaborar un nuevo esquema estratigráfico para el área, y estimar una edad mínima Oligoceno superior para la estructuración de la cuenca. La comparación del sistema de líneas de costa que yace en la margen oriental de esta laguna, con sus equivalentes desarrollados en otras depresiones similares dentro y fuera del área de estudio, sumado a la obtención de un fechado radiocarbónico en una de estas geoformas perilacustres, permitió confirmar que las estabilizaciones de estos espejos de agua someros en la región tienden a coincidir, en general, con los lapsos de condiciones frías del Pleistoceno superior alto, sin que se haya podido verificar una correspondencia estricta entre cada estabilización y su correspondiente estadial o sub-estadial glacial; d) Mantos de gravas que cubren enormes extensiones entre la precordillera y la región extraandina. El análisis litológico de algunos mantos de grava de origen glacifluvial sugiere, aunque de manera muy preliminar debido a las limitaciones del método, probables desplazamientos de las paleodivisorias de hielo durante las glaciaciones Plio-Pleistocenas. Por otro lado, los fechados numéricos disponibles para unidades lávicas ubicadas en la Meseta del Senguer (en las inmediaciones del área de trabajo) permitieron identificar grandes geoformas glacigénicas (morenas frontales y mantos de grava glacifluviales) perfectamente conservadas, de edad pre-Cuaternaria. Las interpretaciones realizadas se sintetizaron en un mapa geomorfológico regional, donde se volcaron los principales ambientes y paleoambientes geomorfológicos descriptos y las geoformas más destacadas identificadas en el área de estudio. Por otro lado, se presenta en este trabajo, un esquema de evolución geomorfológica, que se ajusta en gran medida a la secuencia tradicional de inicio y final de un evento glacial: Etapa “Anaglacial”: Inicio de una glaciación, con el gradual descenso de la temperatura. Se produce el avance lento de glaciares existentes, con la generación de nuevos glaciares de circo, asociado al descenso de la ALE en la región cordillerana, la instauración de condiciones periglaciales en los sectores más altos, la presencia de permafrost en la región precordillerana y la instauración de condiciones periglaciares rigurosas, con la consecuente erosión eólica y la formación y/o profundización de bajos sin salida; Etapa “Pleniglacial”: Glaciares en su máxima extensión y desarrollo del Manto de Hielo de Montaña en la región cordillerana; desarrollo de morenas marginales y glaciares locales de circo o de valle menores, desarrollo de formas periglaciales y crioclastismo generalizado, ocupación del fondo de los valles por las áreas terminales de los lóbulos de descarga cordilleranos, máximo desarrollo de planicies proglaciales proximales a la región precordillerana, deflación y desecación total de algunas depresiones, con la generación, profundización, expansión de los bajos sin salida más profundos y la formación de líneas de costa lacustres en los bajos someros del tipo playa pedemontanas; Etapa “Cataglacial”: Retroceso rápido de las masas glaciales en la cordillera, desarrollo de lagos proglaciales, remoción en masa asociada a etapas paraglaciales en el límite entre la región cordillerana y la precordillera; generación de escarpas en los mantos de grava por intensa acción glacifluvial acompañada de la formación de nuevos mantos de rodados encajonados en los valles y la posible disminución del volumen de agua y desecación gradual de las lagunas someras en la región extraandina. Este esquema incluye modificaciones y nuevas propuestas al esquema tradicional, de acuerdo a las características distintivas de los ambientes estudiados en esta región. Se puede concluir que las glaciaciones ocurridas durante el Cenozoico superior en la Patagonia han introducido notables modificaciones geomorfológicas en la región precordillerana y extraandina del Chubut, a una escala relativamente similar a aquellas que se han producido en la zona cordillerana, donde se alojaron los mantos de hielo repetidas veces. Estos ajustes del relieve y de materiales rocosos, respondieron a los cambios en las condiciones climáticas/ambientales, y fueron el producto de procesos morfodinámicos complejos, sincrónicos con los eventos glaciales (glacifluviales y periglaciales) pero, también, post-glaciales (paraglaciales) asociados a los lapsos de las terminaciones glaciales. El conjunto de unidades estudiadas abarca el lapso (Mioceno?) Plioceno / Presente, ya que incluye tanto morenas frontales como extensos mantos de grava glacifluviales pre-cuaternarios y geoformas periglaciales y perilacustres activas. La morfoestratigrafía propuesta para cada uno de los sistemas o ambientes estudiados permitió reconocer, que los eventos climáticos acontecidos han ido mermando gradualmente su intensidad morfogenética, dejando como evidencia un conjunto de depósitos formados en un contexto climático frío, con un patrón general regresivo y un ascenso de la Línea de Equilibrio Glacial regional, al menos desde el Último Máximo Glacial, donde las geoformas están mayormente representadas en toda la zona de estudio., The geomorphological impact caused by the Upper Cenozoic glaciations in the North-Patagonian Cordillera is unquestionable. The erosive action of glaciers and the typical glacigenic deposits and geoforms are broadly distributed in this region, and they were widely studied. However, the establishment of cold conditions also affected the entire Patagonia during the glaciations, causing important changes in the landscape in the pre-Cordillera and extra-Andean regions, where the Patagonian Ice Sheet had no direct influence. In order to dimension and characterize this impact, an approximately area of 45,000 km2, in the northwest of the Chubut province was analyzed, with emphasis on the pre-Cordillera and the extra-Andean regions. In this area, sites of greatest interest were identified for detailed studies. The general methodology carried out consisted of mapping and field control of geological, geomorphological and sedimentary products, the acquisition of numerical dates (40Ar/39Ar and C14), lithological counts of gravels, the generation of digital elevation models, the measurement of environmental parameters (soil temperature), among many other tasks. One of the main results of the work corresponded to the several geomorphological maps of different scale elaborated, where a large number of geomorphological, erosive and depositional units, indicators of different paleoenvironmental condition, were delimited, described and temporarily located, many of which had not been mentioned until now. In a first stage of this work, each morphological / morphosedimentary environment was described separately. The following results and partial conclusions were obtained for each one: a) height geoforms (mountain geoforms); units of periglacial, nivation and glacial origin, developed in the easternmost North-Patagonian Cordillera. These units are distributed in their respective watersheds, between 1400-2000 m.a.s.l., forming retrograde sequences, according to the gradual elevation of the Equilibrium Line Altitude and the progressive disintegration of mountain permafrost from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. b) Large scale gravitational units; which constitute numerous forms that characterize a restricted zone of the study area, between the easternmost North-Patagonian Cordillera and the pre-Cordillera. These units are the product of the ice masses retraction from slopes affected by the Patagonian Ice Sheet and the effect of glacifluvial and glacilacustrine processes in proglacial areas during this stage. These units represent a paraglacial response, which re-signifies the geomorphology of the postglacial times in the area. c) Closed basins; especially those of shallow characteristics that developed coast line systems, located in the extra-andean region. Laguna de Agnia was one of the crucial sites to study these kinds of environments. On the one hand, the detailed analysis of the stratigraphy around the lake and the 40Ar/39Ar date obtained in basalts, resulted in the elaboration of a new stratigraphic scheme for the area, which allowed estimating an Upper Oligocene minimum age for the basin. The comparison of the shoreline system of Laguna de Agnia lagoon, with its equivalents in other similar depressions inside and outside the study area, strengthened by a radiocarbonic date in one of these paleoshorelines, allowed to confirm that the stabilization of these shallow lakes coincided, in general, with cold climatic conditions in the Upper Pleistocene. d) The gravel mantles; corresponding to huge extensions of gravel deposits, located between the pre-Cordillera and the extra-Andean region. The lithological analysis of some of these glacifluvial gravels suggested, in a very preliminary way based on the limitations of the method, probable displacements of ice paleodivisors during Plio-Pleistocene glaciations. On the other hand, the numerical dating available for lava units located on the Meseta del Senguer (near the study area) allowed the identification of large glacigenic geoforms (frontal moraines and glacifluvial gravels) of pre-Quaternary age. These interpretations were synthesized in a regional geomorphological map, where the geomorphological environments and paleoenvironments described and the main geoforms identified were represented. Besides, a geomorphological evolution scheme is presented, similarly to the traditional sequence of the beginning and the end of a glacial event: “Anaglacial” stage: Beginning of a glaciation, with gradual temperature decrease. The slow advance of existing glaciers occurs, with the generation of new glacial cirques, associated with the decline of the Equilibrium Line Altitude in the Cordillera region, the establishment of periglacial conditions in the highest zones, the presence of permafrost in the pre-Cordilleran region, and the establishment of rigorous periglacial conditions, with the formation/deepening of closed basins by deflation in the extra-Andean region; “Pleniglacial” stage: Glaciers in their maximum extension and development of the Mountain Ice Sheet in the Cordillera region. Development of marginal moraine and local cirque or valley glaciers, expansion of periglacial forms and cryoclastism in pre-Cordillera, occupation of bottom’s valleys by the terminal areas of glacial lobes, maximum development of proglacial plains in the pre-Cordilleran region, domain of cryoclastism, deflation and total desiccation of some basins, with the generation, deepening, expansion of deeper closed basins and formation of shorelines in shallow depressions permanently flooded in the extra-Andean region; “Cataglacial” stage: generation of gravitational units on the boundary between the Cordillera and the pre-Cordillera region. Gravels deposition in deep valleys, and volume of water decrease and gradual desiccation of the shallow closed lakes in the extra-Andean region. This scheme includes modifications and new proposals to the traditional scheme, based on the distinctive characteristics of the environments studied in this region. It can be concluded that the Upper Cenozoic glaciations in Patagonia have introduced notable geomorphological modifications in the pre-Cordillera and extra-Andean region of Chubut, on a similar scale to those that have occurred in the Cordillera area, where ice sheets were developed several times. These relief and rocky materials adjustments, responded to climatic/environmental changes, and were the product of complex morphodynamic processes, synchronous with glacial events (glacifluvial, glacilacustrine and periglacial) but, they were also post-glacial (paraglacial), associated to the final glacial stage. The set of units studied span the lapse (Miocene?) Pliocene / Present, since it includes both extensive pre-Quaternary glacifluvial gravel, and periglacial and paraglacial forms. The morphostratigraphy scheme proposed for each environment, allowed recognizing that the climatic events have gradually diminished their morphogenetic intensity, leaving a set of deposits formed in a cold climatic context, with a general regressive pattern and an ascent of the regional Equilibrium Line Altitude, at least from the Last Glacial Maximum., Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
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11. The Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) of the Friasian sensu stricto and Mayoan (middle to late Miocene), and the fossils from Cerro Zeballos, Patagonia, Argentina
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Gabriel M. Martin, Marcelo F. Tejedor, Bárbara Vera, Nelson Martin Novo, Laureano Raul Gonzalez Ruiz, and Agustina Reato
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0106 biological sciences ,PROTYPOTHERIUM ,010506 paleontology ,biology ,EPIPATRIARCHUS ,Protypotherium ,Paleontology ,Late Miocene ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,Paleontología ,Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente ,PATAGONIA ,Geography ,CAENOPHILUS ,SOUTH AMERICA ,Notoungulata ,Sensu stricto ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,MIOCENE - Abstract
The middle to late Miocene Friasian sensu stricto, Colloncuran and Mayoan South American Land Mammal Ages (SALMAs) were established based on the mammals recovered from the Río Frías, Collón Curá and Río Mayo formations, respectively (southern Argentina and Chile). Records of Interatheriinae (Notoungulata) from these sediments have been known since the first contributions of Ameghino and Roth, but most of this material has only been superficially revised or is almost unstudied. Based on these old collections and new interatheriine records from Cerro Zeballos (Chubut Province), we improve the diagnosis of Caenophilus tripartitus, describe new and peculiar characters for this taxon, consider Epipatriarchus bifidens as Protypotherium cf. colloncurensis, and propose Epipatriarchus as a junior synonym of Protypotherium. In turn, the holotype of Epipatriarchus innexus is here identified as the mesotheriid Trachytypotherium sp. Therefore, only two genera of Interatheriinae, Protypotherium and Caenophilus, are recognized in the Friasian sensu stricto and Mayoan. We identify Protypotherium cf. endiadys and a probable new species of Protypotherium for the Friasian sensu stricto, P. cf. colloncurensis and Caenophilus tripartitus for the Mayoan, and C. tripartitus, P. colloncurensis and P. cf. endiadys for Cerro Zeballos. An extended phylogenetic analysis is performed, including species from low latitudes and new data for P. colloncurensis and Caenophilus tripartitus, with the latter recovered as a sister taxon to Miocochilius federicoi. Both Protypotherium and Miocochilius are recovered as paraphyletic. The updated information we present provides a better knowledge of Interatheriinae for the middle to late Miocene of southern South America. Fil: Vera, Bárbara Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica; Argentina Fil: Gonzalez Ruiz, Laureano Raul. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica; Argentina Fil: Novo, Nelson Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología; Argentina Fil: Martin, Gabriel Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica; Argentina Fil: Reato, Agustina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica; Argentina Fil: Tejedor, Marcelo Fabian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología; Argentina
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