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T1 Glaciokarst landforms in the Sierra de los Grajos, Babia and Luna natural park (Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain)
A1 González Gutiérrez, Rosa Blanca
A1 Santos González, Javier
A1 Gómez Villar, Amelia
A1 Alonso Herrero, Eduardo
A1 García de Celis, Alipio José
A1 Cano, Martín
A1 Redondo Vega, José María
K1 Glacial geomorphology
K1 Geomorfología glaciar
K1 Karst geomorphology
K1 Geomorfología kárstica
K1 Cantabrian Mountains
K1 Cordillera Cantábrica
K1 2506.07 Geomorfología
K1 54 Geografía
AB Landforms resulting from the interaction between paleo-glaciers and karst are studied by using the Sierra de los Grajos (Cantabrian Mountains) as a model. This area contains glacial landforms that have not interested geomorphologists due to their low altitude (Peña Castillo is about 1857 m a.s.l.), the absence of glacial cirques and the scarcity of large moraines. However, the prevalence of groundwater flow and chemical dissolution has favoured the preservation of glacial landforms. Lateral and frontal moraines show three main glacial stages and other minor glacier stabilization phases, with the paleo-ELA oscillating between 1650 and 1760 m. Moraines are combined with depressions and sinks resulting from subglacial karstic drainage. This convergence of forms and processes is an exception in the Cantabrian Mountains, where postglacial erosion has usually eroded the frontal moraines and the proglacial sediments. In the case of the Sierra de los Grajos, despite the underground drainage and preservation of many glacial deposits on karstic landforms, an outwash-plain was formed. These proglacial sediments and others from non-karstified areas filled the depressions of the preglacial terrain located at their edges. The main glaciokarstic landforms have been mapped and a sedimentological analysis of the outwash plain was made in order to reconstruct the glacial dynamics of this area.
PB Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
SN 1580-2612
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/41019
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/41019
LA eng
NO Acta Carsologica, 2017, vol. 46, n. 2-3. p. 165–178
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-abr-2024