Major lake level fluctuations and climate changes for the past 16,000 years as reflected by diatoms and chironomids preserved in the sediment of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Massaferro, Julieta, Recasens, C., Larocque Tobler, I., Zolitschka, B., Maidana, Nora Irene
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Diatoms; Chironomids; Paleoclimatic Reconstruction; Late Glacial; Holocene; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Argentina; Julieta; Patagonia; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/15941

Laguna Potrok Aike is a maar lake located in southernmost Argentina and is one of the few permanent lakes preserving a continuous climatic record from the semiarid Patagonian steppe. Furthermore, its location close to Antarctica provides a unique opportunity to compare paleoclimate from continental...