Push moraines in the upper valley of Santa Cruz river, southwest Argentina. Structural analysis and relationship with Late Pleistocene paleoclimate

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Goyanes, Gabriel Alejandro, Massabie, Armando Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ARGENTINA; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; LAST GLACIATION; PUSH MORAINES; SANTA CRUZ RIVER; SOUTHERN PATAGONIA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentino; Argentina; Pablo; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/85007

The upper cliff of the Santa Cruz River was used to assess the proglacial environments of the Argentino Glacier outlet of Late Pleistocene age. These cliffs show glaciolacustrine, fluvioglacial and till deposits, where only the first one are deformed. Glacial landforms in the area and these structur...