Geology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoclimatology of the South American Pampas

This book brings together for the first time different palaeontological and geological aspects (e.g., palaeoecology, biochronostratigraphy, palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironments, magnetostratigraphy, glaciations) of the Pampean region (Argentina) and neighboring areas from the Late Miocene up to the Holocene. It provides a structural basis for understanding more specific treatments of Late Cenozoic fossil mammals of southern South America and is a foundational text in this series. Chapters comprise the scientific works of 32 specialist researchers from academic and scientific institutions across Argentina.
A major scientific reference, this book will be a consulted by scientists, students, and teachers for years to come.

List of contents

Introduction.- Late Cenozoic fossil mammals of Pampean region (Argentina): Biochronostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental update.- The Late Cenozoic continental sediments of the Pampean plain.- General review of the continental Late Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of Argentina.- Diatom-inferred Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental and climatic changes in the southern Pampas, Argentina.- Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstructions from palynological and palynofacies analysis of the Late Cenozoic/Holocene, Pampean region (Argentina).- Pleistocene ecology of Mar del Plata neighbourhoods, Argentina.- Neogene to Holocene calcareous microfossils record in the Pampean region Insights in climate and paleoenvironmental evolution.- Biomineralizations of iron, calcium and amorphous silica, their role in the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of pedosedimentary sequences of the Late Cenozoic in the southeast of the Pampean plain.- Glaciations and climatic and environmental change in Patagonia since the Miocene, and their relationship with the Pampean land-mammal Oxygen Stage Ages.- Hunter-gatherers and extinct fauna during the Late Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Pampas region (Argentina) An overview.

Product details

• Assisted by: Germán Mariano Gasparini (Editor), Eduardo P Tonni (Editor), Jorge Rabassa (Editor), Eduardo P. Tonni (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032160485
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3216048-5
• Illustrations: Approx. 450 p.
• Series: Springer Earth System Sciences; Late Cenozoic Fossil Mammals of Southern South America
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Paläontologie, Regionale Geographie, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie, paleontology, Hunter-gatherers, geology, Regional Geography, Sedimentology, Climate Sciences, Palaeoecology, Late Cenozoic, Paleaontology, South American Pampas, Palaeoclimatology, Magnetostratigraphy, Biochronostratigraphy, Palaeoenvironments