The changing Patagonian landscape. Erosion and westward sediment transfer paths in northern Patagonia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene

• Published in: Basin Research
• Main Authors: Villasenor T., Tentori D., Marsaglia K. M., Pinto L.
• Other Authors: Villasenor, T., Tentori, D., Marsaglia, K. M., Pinto, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2019
• Subjects: glacial erosion; Ocean Drilling Program; Patagonia; Patagonian Ice Sheet; sediment provenance; source to sink; Chonos; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1327803; https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12413

Pleistocene glaciations have promoted important landscape transformations as a result of high rates of erosion and rapid sediment evacuation to adjacent marine basins. In the Patagonian Andes the role of the Patagonian Ice Sheet on landscape evolution, in particular the spatial patterns of glacial e...