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The article focuses on a research revealing the first record of a juvenile specimen of Glyptodon species from the Quaternary of Córdoba province in Argentina. The material being used comprises of 90 osteoderms of the dorsal carapace, 19 osteoderms of the caudal armor, and several post-cranial bones. The specimen principally demonstrates hexagon shape osteoderms, with high thickness and maximum diameter ratio as well as circular or subcircular central figure and elevated in relation with the peripheric surface, with central depression.

Pollen, ostracods, diatoms and insects such as beetles and chironomids are the biological indicators from lake sediments more useful in environmental reconstructions. Chironomids have recently acquired great importance due to the promising results obtained regarding climatic reconstructions mainly in Europe and North America. In South America, the use of fossil chironomids in Quaternary studies is still limited and the reason for that is the little regional taxonomic knowledge. Most of these studies were developed in glacial lakes in Patagonia both in Argentina and Chile. The larvae of chironomids are an invaluable paleolimnological tool due to the sensitiveness of these insects to natural and non-natural environmental changes. In addition to that, this group of insects is widely distributed with a high abundance and diversity. Their head capsules can preserve in sediments holding characters which allow their generic and sometimes specific identification. The study of chironomid assemblages can be used with different goals, for instance, to study eutrofication due to their quick response to changes in organic matter, nutrients and heavy metals. However, one of the most significant potentials of this group is its sensitivity to temperature variations, which is why the most important implementation of their study in sediments is centered in climatic reconstructions. This article is a review of the studies developed in Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia, using fossil chironomids for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A geomorphologic analysis applied to the knowledge of the regional Quaternary geology was carried out in an arid region of Central Western Argentina. The study area lies between Eastern Precordillera and Western Pampean ranges System. The need for a better knowledge of the territorial units is required for a sustainable development of the new agricultural farms in the southern part of the central valley of the San Juan river. The geomorphologic study combine field works with processing and interpretation of air stereo photographs and satellite images. The different landforms were arranged in 6 Great Landscape units (GP), twelve landscape units (P) and 7 sublandscape units (SP). The GP units are based on the morphogenesis, while the P units are based on altitude, topographic and location basin. The SP have minor extension relief features defined mainly by the land use. The twenty-five territorial units mapped are arranged in successive steplike levels, which facility a relative chronology. These Quaternary environmental units were collected in only four units: Q1, made up by colluvio-alluvial deposits, Q2, abandoned alluvial plain deposits (ca. 36,000 yr BP -- 10,000 yr BP); Q3, aeolian sediments (3,500 yr BP -- 1,400 yr BP) and Q4 present day fluvial deposits. These four geological quaternary environments were analyzed and applied them to land use and regional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quaternary sediments of pampean plains, particularly in Buenos Aires province, south of Córdoba and La Pampa, frequently had sandy beds at the sequency top. They had named with differents formational names, and were considerated of mammal age Lujanense (upper Pleistocene), in some cases with his upper beds in Holocene. In center La Pampa province, there are: great sandy beds named Meauco Formation, which have physical continuity with similar deposits within Buenos Aires province to the east. In this work four sedimentary detailed profiles near Jagüel del Monte are described and interpretated. From this is evident that two wets periods take place with a poor or nule sedimentation rate, and paleosoils development, so during time period in which Meauco Formation was deposited, five stages with different climatic environmental conditions take place: dry - wet - dry - wet and dry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]