A team of geologists discovers a new drumlin field in Southern Patagonia
A team of geologists has discovered a new field of drumlins- geological formations of glacial origin - in the eastern sector of Lake Viedma, located in the Los Glaciares National Park in Southern Patagonia. This is one of the most important findings of a project aimed at charting the paleoclimate in regions of Patagonia and reconstructing the dynamics of glaciations from thousands of years ago. Participants in the project include Professor David Serrat, from the UBʼs Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, who co-authored the first description of the drumlin fields on Gable Island (1987) in the Beagle Channel, a tectonic basin that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in sub-Antarctic latitudes.
A team of geologists has discovered a new field of drumlins- geological formations of glacial origin - in the eastern sector of Lake Viedma, located in the Los Glaciares National Park in Southern Patagonia. This is one of the most important findings of a project aimed at charting the paleoclimate in regions of Patagonia and reconstructing the dynamics of glaciations from thousands of years ago. Participants in the project include Professor David Serrat, from the UBʼs Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, who co-authored the first description of the drumlin fields on Gable Island (1987) in the Beagle Channel, a tectonic basin that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in sub-Antarctic latitudes.
The team also includes Jorge Óscar Rabasa and Federico Ponce, from the Southern Centre for Scientific Research of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CADIC-CONICET), and Óscar Martínez, from the National University of Patagonia. The project was carried out under a long-standing collaborative framework between the UB and the CADIC-CONICET, with the participation of the National University of Patagonia.