German Geological Society
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE HEINRICH AND DANSGAARD–OESCHGER CLIMATIC EVENTS DURING MARINE ISOTOPIC STAGE 3 ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DANSGAARD–OESCHGER EVENTS AND ITS TIME VARIABILITY THE IN?UENCE OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IN CLIMATE CHANGES ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES DURING THE MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3) ACTIVE DEFORMATION, UPLIFT AND SUBSIDENCE IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA THROUGHOUT THE QUATERNARY: A GENERAL REVIEW ABOUT THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND MECHANISMS THE MARINE ISOTOPIC STAGE 3 (MIS 3) IN VALLEYS OF THE UNDULATED PAMPA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA SEA LEVEL CHANGES DURING MARINE ISOTOPIC STAGE 3 (MIS 3) IN ARGENTINA PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE ATLANTIC COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3) THE CONTINENTAL RECORD OF MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE (MIS 3; ~60–25 KA) IN CENTRAL ARGENTINA: EVIDENCE FROM FLUVIAL AND AEOLIAN SEQUENCES MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3) AND CONTINENTAL BEDS FROM NORTHERN URUGUAY (SOPAS FORMATION): PALEONTOLOGY, CHRONOLOGY, AND CLIMATE THE BRAZILIAN INTERTROPICAL FAUNA FROM 60 TO ABOUT 10 KA B P : TAXONOMY, DATING, DIET, AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS CONTINENTAL VERTEBRATES DURING THE MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3) IN ARGENTINA MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3) VERSUS MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 5 (MIS 5) FOSSILIFEROUS MARINE DEPOSITS FROM URUGUAY VEGETATION AND CLIMATE IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS 3): AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING TERRESTRIAL POLLEN RECORDS RESPONSE OF DIATOMS TO LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE CHANGES SILICOPHYTOLITH STUDIES IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ARGENTINA: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 (MIS3) TO 25,000 YEARS AGO) HELD IN JUNE 2013, IN LA PLATA, ARGENTINA THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING WAS TO PROMOTE THE INTERACTION OF THE LEADING SCIENTISTS IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL SCIENCES OF THE LATE CENOZOIC OF SOUTH AMERICA IN ORDER TO UPDATE THE EXISTING KNOWLEDGE ON THE CORE ISSUES CITED IN THE TITLE OF THE SYMPOSIUM (E G , GEOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, VERTEBRATE AND INVERTE- BRATE PALEONTOLOGY, PALYNOLOGY, PALEOMAGNETISM, PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEO- CLIMATIC STUDIES, ETC) THIS WAS THE ?RST TIME EVER THAT THESE TOPICS RELATED TO MIS WERE PUBLICLY DISCUSSED IN ARGENTINA THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGICAL HISTORY IS CHAR- ACTERIZED BY CYCLICAL CLIMATIC CHANGES (GLACIAL AND INTERVALS) THESE CYCLICAL CHANGES GENERATED PERIODIC REORGANIZATIONS OF THE LANDSCAPE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM MIS 3 WAS AN INTERSTADIAL STAGE, A RELATIVELY WARMER CLIMATIC PERIOD WHICH