Geological Resources of Tierra del Fuego

The CADIC’s Geological Resources Program will soon turn 40 years of fruitful development. During this period many projects were carried out and others remain to be implemented. In the course of time three generations of researchers have been formed. Mentioning names would be unfair to those that could be involuntarily omitted. There is still a long way to go. The eagerness for knowledge should not stop.

This book is a tribute to all those people who have worked in the different projects of pure and applied science, and educational, and human resources training, granted to this founding program and associated laboratories of the regional center of CONICET in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

The twenty papers which constitute this book have a genuine Latin appeal, having been written by 50 authors based in Argentina and Spain. All this contributions are concerned with Fuegian geological resources. Everyone concerned with this work hopes that it will prove a fitting and lasting memorial to Nacho Subías, whose personal contribution to our knowledge of this geology was outstanding.

1          An introduction to the geology of Tierra del Fuego        

Luis Díaz Balocchi, Sebastián José Cao and Erika Lorena Bedoya Agudelo

Silvia Ametrano, Ricardo Etcheverry, Horacio Echeveste and Marta Godeas

3          A review of the Arroyo Rojo VMS deposit, Tierra del Fuego                   

Constanza Lobo Powell and Ignacio Gómez Vereda

4          The Ornamental Rocks of Tierra del Fuego       

Estefanía Picado

5          Aggregates in Tierra del Fuego: Morphogenesis and Distribution 

            Juan Federico Ponce, Andrea Coronato, Diego Quiroga, Alejandro Montes,

Luis Díaz Ballochi and Mariana Vargas

6          Didactic Tools in the Scope of Geography in the Provincia de Tierra del Fuego    Francisco Labate

7          Teaching Earth Sciences in the Provincial Educational System

            Ernesto Saavedra

David Nelson Federico Guevara

9          Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados Peatlands          

Adolfina Savoretti, Juan Federico Ponce, Claudio Roig and Andrea Coronato

10          Lakes and Glaciers from Fuegian Andes. Morphology, Distribution and Origin Cristina N. San Martín, J. Federico Ponce and Andrea Coronato       

11        Geophysical Methods Applied to the Study of Lakes and Paleolakes in Tierra del Fuego

Claudia Prezzi, María J. Orgeira, Andrea Coronato, María R. Onorato, Diego R.A. Quiroga, Ramiro López, Juan F. Ponce, Ignacio Magneres, Pablo A. Núñez Demarco, Laura P. Perucca and  Pedro Palermo

12        Geological and Geographic Resources among Hunter-gatherers of Tierra del Fuego: a View from Archaeological and Ethnographic Data 

Karen Borazzo and Martín Vásquez

13        Geotourism – Interpretation – Ethnogeology: Extraordinary Geological Resources in Tierra del Fuego     

Gabriel Chicote Alvira

14        Key features and Geosite proposal to tell the story of the Argentinian Andes in the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

Joan Poch, Joan Reche, Francisco Martínez, Mercè Corbella and David Gómez

15        Differential Uplifting Rates Across the Magellan Fault: Interactions Between South American and Scotia Plates

Gustavo Gabriel Bujalesky, Federico Isla and Alejandro Montes

the South Atlantic Islands and Southern Patagonia         

María Julia Orgeira, Guillermo Ré, Claudia Gogorza and Ana María Sinito

17        Provenance of the Coastal Sands of the Western Scotia Plate: Tierra del Fuego

and Antarctic Peninsula

Federico Isla, Ximena Contardo, Jorge Spagnuolo and Gustavo Bujalesky

18        An overview on the Mineral Resources of the Argentine

Antarctic Sector

Claudio A. Parica and Marcela B. Remesal

19        Meteorites found in the Argentine Antarctic Sector        

Víctor Manuel García

20        Acidity and Alkalinity as Foundational Parameters in the Ordering of Eruptive Rocks and some Fuegian examples

Rogelio Daniel Acevedo