The Argentina Continental Margin A Potential Paleoclimatic-Paleoceanographic Archive for the Southern Ocean /

• Main Authors: Violante, Roberto A. (Author), Laprida, Cecilia (Author), García Chapori, Natalia L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Sedimentology.; Oceanography.; Geomorphology.; Earth Sciences.

The evolution of the Argentina Continental Margin during the Quaternary and the stratigraphic and morphosedimentary configuration responded to climatic variability, oceanographic changes, glacioeustatic fluctuations and tectono-isostatic processes, which began to impact on the margin during previous...

Table of Contents:

• The Argentina Continental Margin (ACM)
• Location in the context of the Southern Hemisphere, the southern tip of South America and Antarctica
• The ACM as an archive for paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes
• Local and regional processes: climate, oceanography, sea-level fluctuations, isostasy, tectonism, sediment supply, sedimentary processes
• Oceanographic Context: interaction between Antarctic and Equator water-masses
• Environments: continental shelf, slope, rise, ocean basin
• Sedimentary processes in each of them: along-shore and across-shore processes
• Effects of the sea-level fluctuations on the shelf
• Effects of the water-masses circulation on the slope and rise
• Turbiditic and contouritic processes
• Morphosedimentary features in each environment
• The significance of the ACM as a potential archive for understanding local and regional processes.