Glacial, fluvial and volcanic landscape evolution in the Laguna Potrok Aike maar area, Southern Patagonia, Argentina

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Coronato, Andrea Maria Josefa, Ercolano, Bettina, Corbella, Jorge Hugo, Tiberi, Pedro Eugenio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Maar; Glaciofluvial Landforms; Potrok Aike; Argentina; Middle Pleistocene; South America; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Patagonia; Argentino; Gallegos; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26738

We describe the Pleistocene evolution of the landscape in the Laguna Potrok Aike area in southern Patagonia, Argentina, based on a geomorphological survey. Basaltic eruptions generated tablelands and scoria cones between the Late Miocene and Middle Pleistocene, and phreatomagmatic eruptions produced...