Phytolith analysis for the Potrok Aike Lake Drilling Project: Preliminary results and current studies.

ZUCOL, A.F.; BREA, M.; PASSEGGI, E.; FERNÁNDEZ PEPI, M.G.; COLOBIG, M.M.; PATTERER, N.I.

1ª Reunión Internodos del Proyecto Interdisciplinario Patagonia Austral y 1er Workshop Argentino del Proyecto Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project. Corbella, H. & Maidana, N. I. (Eds.).

Proyecto Editorial PIPA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2010; p. 89 - 91

The preliminary phytolith studies from the Potrok Aike Lake sedimentary sequence were made with SALSA core samples (Zolitschka and Schäbitz, 2007), and included 9 samples from across this drilling section (Table 1). These samples were sent for analysis by Dr. Nora Maidana (PI PASADO project) for the purpose of verifying the presence of siliceous microremains and particularly phytoliths, in order to evaluate the potential information that might be obtained using this approach in the analysis of the Potrok Aike Lake sedimentary sequence. In these preliminary analyses, the phytoliths became the main emphasis and therefore the study of other types of microremains (Maidana et al., 2005; Wille et al., 2007) was not included.