Llanquihue glaciation

View of the Chilean Lake District where the Llanquihue glaciation has been defined.

The last glacial period and its associated glaciation is known in southern Chile as the Llanquihue glaciation (Spanish: Glaciación de Llanquihue).[1] Its type area lies west of Llanquihue Lake where various drifts or end moraine systems belonging to the last glacial period have been identified.[2][A] The glaciation is the last episode of existence of the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Around Nahuel Huapi Lake the equivalent glaciation is known as the Nahuel Huapi Drift.

The preceding interglacial is known as the Valdivia interglacial after its type locality of Valdivia.[4]

  1. ^ Heusser, C.J. (1974). "Vegetation and climate of the southern Chilean Lake District during and since the last interglaciation". Quaternary Research. 4 (3): 290–315. Bibcode:1974QuRes...4..290H. doi:10.1016/0033-5894(74)90018-0. S2CID 129840921.
  2. ^ Porter, Stephen C. (1981). "Pleistocene glaciation in the southern Lake District of Chile". Quaternary Research. 16 (3): 263–292. Bibcode:1981QuRes..16..263P. doi:10.1016/0033-5894(81)90013-2. S2CID 140544020.
  3. ^ Rabassa, Jorge; Coronato, Andrea M.; Salemme, Mónica (2005). "Chronology of the Late Cenozoic Patagonian glaciations and their correlation with biostratigraphic units of the Pampean region (Argentina)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 20 (1–2): 81–103. Bibcode:2005JSAES..20...81R. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.07.004. hdl:11336/150967.
  4. ^ Astorga, G.; Pino, M (2011). "Fossil leaves from the last interglacial in Central-Southern Chile: Inferences regarding the vegetation and paleoclimate". Geologica Acta. 9 (1): 45–54.


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