Impulsores antrópicos y climáticos en la evolución geoambiental de la región cantábrica durante el Antropocenointegrando evidencias geomorfológicas y registros sedimentarios costeros y lacustres
- M. Morellón 1
- Juan Remondo 2
- Jaime Bonachea 2
- V. Brusch 2
- J.L. Cavallotto
- J. Fernández-Lozano 2
- Luis María Forte 3
- J. E. Gómez-Arozamena
- Alberto González-Díez 2
- F. González-Soto 3
- I. Hernández-Almeida 7
- M. Leira 4
- César Morales del Molino 5
- V. Rivas 2
- C. Sierra-Fernández 6
- Antonio Cendrero 2
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Universidad de Cantabria
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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Universidade de Lisboa
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University of Bern
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Universidad de León
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- 7 Department of Earth Sciencies, ETH-Zürich
Publisher: Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
ISBN: 978-84-17713-16-4
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 199-202
Congress: Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario (15. 2019. Bilbao)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This research aims at understanding how recent (19th to 21st centuries) warming and increasing human activities have affected the geomorphological dynamics of the Cantabrian region, subjected to a comparatively high human pressure during this period. In this work, we use a multi-archive and multi-site approach, integrating available high-resolution estuarine (Tina-Menor, San Vicente, Rabia, Suances, Maruca, Santander, Santoña, Muskiz and Urdaibai) and lake (La Cueva, Enol) sedimentary records located across W to E longitudinal and altitudinal (0-1500 m.a.s.l.) transects. Preliminary results indicate a marked increase in sedimentation rates during the so-called ‘Great Acceleration’, recorded after the second half of the 20th century and mainly driven by the economic growth and associated human impact in this area. The extension of this research to other lacustrine watersheds located at different altitudes and subjected to different levels of anthropic pressure and the application of other proxies (sedimentology and geochemistry) will clarify the relative contribution of climate change and human impact to reconstructed environmental changes.