Late and Postglacial Paleoenvironments of Tierra del Fuego: Terrestrial and Marine Palynological Evidence

Abstract

The vegetation and paleoclimate of southernmost part of South America, Tierra del Fuego, during Late Pleistocene– Holocene times and following the wastage of iceage glaciers, were subjects of intensive study mainly by Heusser (1987, 1989a, b, c, 1990, 1993a, b, 1994a, b, 1995a, 1997, 1998, 2003), Heusser and Rabassa (1987, 1995), Markgraf (1980a, b, 1983, 1991a, b, 1993a, b), Markgraf et al. (1992, 2002), Markgraf and Anderson (1994), Borromei (1995), Markgraf and Kenny (1997), Quattrocchio and Borromei (1998), Borromei and Quattrocchio (2001), Pendall et al. (2001), Grill et al. (2002), Mauquoy et al. (2004), following the pioneering work earlier in this century of Va¨ino¨ Auer (1933, 1956, 1958, 1970, 1974).