Geomorphological features and processes in the Sierra de Famatina, La Rioja

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Fucks, Enrique Eduardo, Corbat, María Cecilia, Juárez, Oscar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: MORAINES; PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES; QUATERNARY; SIERRA DE FAMATINA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Argentine; Piedras; Belgrano; General Belgrano; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/94603

The Sierra de Famatina is considered the highest elevation outside the Argentine Andes Cordillera, being the General Belgrano hill, 6097 masl, the main height. This altitudinal situation favored the development of glaciers during the cold events of the cyclical Quaternary climatic fluctuations, givi...