Quaternary Large Mammals from the Granada Geopark: A Magnificent Record with Examples of Geoconservation

Authors :: Arribas Herrera, Alfonso
Garrido Álvarez-Coto, Guiomar
Garrido García, José Antonio
García Tortosa, Francisco Juan
Medialdea Pérez, Cristóbal
Source :: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Geoconservation Research, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 663-674 (2021)
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Islamic Azad University, 2021.
Abstract: Granada Geopark, covering almost all of the Guadix-Baza basin, contains an exceptional and near-continuous fossil record of the evolution of Pliocene to middle Pleistocene land mammals (5–0.5 Ma). This period covers the endorheic (closed drainage basin) stage of this geological basin and, in this chronological framework, its record of the Quaternary period, mainly the Early Pleistocene, is outstanding.<br />Estación paleontológica Valle del río Fardes, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, España<br />Universidad de Jaén, España<br />Ayuntamiento de Guadix, España

Subjects :: Granada Geopark
quaternary
Guadix-Baza Basin
General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
QH1-199.5
fossil record
heritage
guadix-baza basin
Quaternary
geoconservation
granada geopark
large mammals
large mammal

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Geoconservation Research, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 663-674 (2021)
Accession number :: edsair.dedup.wf.001..6ea0f1c70e1b5714ceaa43bc61960eae
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.30486/gcr.2021.1929773.1093

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