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As part of the Southern Hemisphere Paleo- and Neoclimates Project (UNESCO IGCP- 341), sediments deposited in three small basins of volcanic maars which outcrop in the southern Santa Cruz extra-Andean volcanic belt at 52° S latitude were cored up to 59 meters depth. Undisturbed samples were obtained from six coring sites. A preliminary palynological study of sediments from the Magallanes Maar (one sample/meter) seems to indicate several pulses of higher and lower relative humidity. Radiocarbon analyses indicate an Upper Pleistocene age for these sediments.s
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Corbella, H., Borromei, A.M., Quattrocchio, M.E. (2000). Quaternary Climate Changes in Southernmost South America Inferred from Lacustrine Sediments Preserved in Volcanic Maars. In: Smolka, P., Volkheimer, W. (eds) Southern Hemisphere Paleo- and Neoclimates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59694-0_17
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