ESR dating of Pleistocene mammals and marine shells from the coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil

• Published in: Quaternary international Vol. 352; pp. 124 - 134
• Main Authors: Lopes, Renato P., Kinoshita, Angela, Baffa, Oswaldo, Figueiredo, Ana Maria Graciano, Dillenburg, Sérgio Rebello, Schultz, Cesar Leandro, Pereira, Jamil Corrêa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 26.11.2014
• Subjects: Bivalvia; Brazil; coastal plains; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; European Union; Foraminifera; fossils; mammals; Retaria; sea level; sediments; uranium; water temperature; ASW, Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil; LGP-E; LGP-G

The Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul state (CPRS), in southern Brazil, encompasses four barrier-lagoon depositional systems formed by marine highstands during the Quaternary, but the ages of the Pleistocene systems older than ∼125 ka are not precisely known due to the lack of numerical dates. In o...