Phytolith analysis for the Patrok Aike Lake Drilling Proyect: Sample treatment protocols for the PASADO Microfossil manual

ALEJANDRO F. ZUCOL, ESTEBAN PASSEGGI, MARIANA BREA, NOELIA I. PATTERER, MA. GABRIELA FERNÁNDEZ PEPI AND MARIA DE LOS MILAGROS COLOBIG.

Encuentro; 1ª Reunión Internodos del Proyecto Interdisciplinario Patagonia Austral y 1er Workshop Argentino del Proyecto Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project; 2010

~ Drilling Projects serie (SALSA and PASADO). some of the researchers from the various iplines involved are coordinating their protocols. in order to help standardize the various hodologies used to achieve their research objectives (Schabitz and Wille, Unpub.). This ument has therefore been created to inform the PASADO microfossil community of the ´hodologies that are being applied in the phytolith analyses, as well as to discuss the entiaI types of paleobotanical and paleoenvironmental reconstructions being focused n as objectives. e phytoliths from the Potrok Aike Lake sedimentary sequence are being studied jointly by research groups: Diamante and Mar del Plata. This presentation is focused on mmunicating the details of the protocol that the Diamante group is implementing for the tment and study of these samples, with the eventual goal of coordinating these thodologies to develop one common protocol used by both groups.