Editorial Special Issue - Landforms, sediments, and soils: Quaternary study cases of Argentina

TRIPALDI, ALFONSINA; SANTI MALNIS, PAULA

Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis

Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología

Lugar: La Plata; Año: 2023 vol. 30 p. 93 - 94

1669-7316

This volume collects papers that combine Quaternary Geology and Sedimentology in study cases from Argentina. The Quaternary Science community of Argentina is dynamic and vigorous, accompanying the last decades of increasing significance of the Quaternary studies to face the environmental issues of a highly changeableEarth System regarding landscape, climate, and human impact. Numerous scientific teams spread along the country, in academic, scientific, and other governmental institutions, are studying the Quaternary record of Argentina. The result of thatis, among others, the occurrence of the National Quaternary and Geomorphology Congress of Argentina (CACyG), which happens every three years in different Argentina’s localities. The last version, the VIII CACyG, was held in San JuanCity in September of 2022, and some contributions there presented were invited as paper versions for the Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis. As a result of that initiative, we are here presenting this Special Issue, “Landforms,sediments, and soils: Quaternary study cases of Argentina,” with four original research papers that received the standard peer-review of the LAJSBA. The research papers embrace different study cases of Argentina, from the piedmont areas of the Andes Cordillera and the Pampean Ranges to the glacial lakes and marine coasts of Patagonia. These papers expose novel results obtained through robust field surveys associated with the application of different tools like remote sensing, geophysical methods, and diverse laboratory analysis.