inqua project proposal

INQUA ANNUAL REPORTING form page 1

INQUA ANNUAL REPORT FOR FUNDING GIVEN IN 2015 Deadline for receipt of reports by the Secretary-General and the President of the sponsoring Commission: 31st January 2016. If you are applying for continuation of your activity and additional funding for 2016, you must complete and submit a new application form. Please keep your reports on activities and achievements (5 and 7) brief, because these reports are read by all the members of the Executive. You may attach additional supporting documents (e.g. meeting agenda, news items, copies of publications) if you wish.

1.

IFG/Project/Skill grant number 1311 Project

2.

Title Project SAQint3- Interactions between climatic forcing, tectonics and volcanism during the Late Quaternary: a multidisciplinary approach applied on key regions of South America

3.

Sponsoring Commission TERPRO Commission

4.

Leader(s) (name, mailing address, e-mail address): (All communications will take place by email unless specifically requested otherwise, in which case a fax number should be supplied.): Dr. Daniela KRÖHLING (main coordinator). CONICET and Universidad Nacional del Litoral, CC 217, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina. Email: [email protected] - [email protected]

5.

Brief summary of activities during reporting year

The SAQint3 project is a collaborative project, with most of the participants are SS, ECRs and young researchers from South American (SAm) institutions that in general have limited resources to keep their involvement in international scientific activities. In the last year of the project the main focus was to continue bringing together scientists working on research areas that address the Quaternary Geology of key selected regions comprising different tectonic settings of the continent within SAm with the first aim of distinguish features caused by major climatic changes from those created independently of exogenetic processes. These target regions were:

INQUA ANNUAL REPORTING form, page 2

the Northern Andes of Venezuela, the Central Andes of Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Chile (also including the Southern Altiplano-Puna Plateau), the NE of Brazil and intracratonic regions of S Brazil and NE Argentina. In 2015 the main activity of the project was the hosting of a closing international meeting comprising the organization of a scientific session, a workshop and an associated field trip in La Serena, Chile. These provide great opportunities to present new results of the project to a range of appropriate scientists, and to discuss on problems, interpretation and correlation between regions. The activities involved SS and ECRs, mainly from different countries of SAm in significant roles as leaders/coordinators of the scientific excursion, courses, and coordinators of sessions, oral presentations and author of papers. Also, the project has reinforced a specific research topic (neotectonic) in different geomorphological environments of SA (Andean and extra-Andean regions). Offering grants from this INQUA project to ECRs and PhD students of different SAm countries to participate in the main international meeting organized is highly valuable on this continent, with relative minor offers of this kind of initiatives. But the impossibility of considering partial subventions for some of the SS of SAm from the INQUA project, very active on it and without possibility of other financial sources from their respective countries, remains as an inconvenient. Many progresses in the not easy task of correcting the lack of coordination between SAm geoscientists have been reached on basis of an important effort of the thematic coordinators of the project in order to facilitate the interaction. The work of mailing to geoscientists involved in the activities of the project was a central activity. Thus it provided a forum for scientists of different countries and geological sub-disciplines to discuss and exchange data and interpretations. New contacts among local researchers in order to stimulate multidisciplinary research were developed in 2015 (see item 6.) The main task of produce advances related to tectonics and surface processes interaction in a continent with a great potential for this type of studies is the special volume of Quaternary International in edition. After three years of data gathering, the last months of 2015 were mainly dedicated to correlate data across different regions and to integrate them in the special volume. This activities are in progress and will extent in the first months of 2016.The volume includes only papers (12/15) of the project participants working in key SAm regions and focusing on integrated analyses of the tectonic-volcanic vs. climatic interplay on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution. The generated geological knowledge also will be a valuable basis for the management of natural resources and also natural hazards. The results would contribute with information useful to programs of mitigation of societal impacts from extreme climatic events, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. A progressive integration between scientists dedicated to the research of the Quaternary in SAm, specialized in diverse geological sub-disciplines, was achieved from the activity of the IFG and the associated 1311 project. Also, more integration was accomplished between foreign specialists working in some regions of SAm with active local specialists. The number of geoscientists interested in participating in the 1311 project has been increasing during all the intercongress period. Information related to the planned activities of the project were disseminated by the web, in order to maintain a permanent communication, to connect more active specialists, to spread the existence of the initiative and to trigger a much need SAm scientific collaboration between the different geological sub-


disciplines addressed in the project. The coordinator has been in continuous contact with participants through email, whatsapp, skype and phone conversations. The activities have been successful, in a large part due to the personal effort of the leader of the 1311 project. It is understood that probably due to the embryonic stage of networking in SAm and to the limited funds for organizing meetings, it is much easier to receive the enthusiasm of potential contributors, than to implement and to bring down with concrete activities. Thus, the challenge is that more SAm geoscientists known and are interested in participating in diverse INQUA activities. Meetings conducted by the SAQint3 project in 2015 (see the ANNEX at the end of this form): 1. Central Workshop and Field Trip of the 1311 project at the XIV Chilean Geological Congress. La Serena, CHILE, 4-7 October, 2015. Coordinator: D. Kröhling (Argentina) http://www.terpro.org.ar/meetings.htm - http://www.congresogeologicochileno.cl The closing meeting of the 1311 INQUA project was hosted at the XIV Chilean Geological Congress, one of the most important events for geoscientists in SAm for 2015. This was held in the coastal city of La Serena (yr. 1544, the second old city), in an area with good outcrops of Quaternary sequences. The city has been recently seriously affected by the earthquake of Illapel, Coquimbo (16 Sept. 2015, M: 8.4) and the tsunami (see the photos in the Annex). The workshop (5th October) was a space for discussion in order to enhance the exchange of information and strategies for the future objectives of geoscientists actively working in the Quaternary of SAm. Training activities through conferences of the responsibles for neotectonics and glacial processes of the project (C. COSTA and JP. MILANA, respectively; Argentina), and oral presentations, mainly by ECRs, were also included. A round-table discussion led by formal participants of the Group and ECRs participants of the workshop closed the day of workshop. Possibilities for common efforts to improve our knowledge on Late Quaternary processes on the continent and the future of the SAm-GeoQuat IFG were analyzed. Also different ways to increase the participation of SAm geoscientists in INQUA activities were discussed. A field trip (7th October) in the northern coastal area of La Serena was organized: "The coastal ridges and dunes of La Serena Norte, Coquimbo Bay, portraying the last 6000 years of coastal evolution" (J.P. MILANA, Argentina, and A. GARCIA, Chile; Leaders and members of the project). Partial travel grants for the oral participation of PhD students and ECRs were covered by the 1311 project, previous selection on basis of the analysis of the received application forms (and considering that it is complicated for SAm scientists to afford international trips). The meeting was coordinated by D. KRÖHLING and with the support of R .CHARRIER (VicePresident of the Chilean Geol. Congress and also member of the 1311 project; Chile). G. AGUILAR (member of the project; Chile) organized a two days congress session dedicated to the Quaternary Geomorphology. The congress also included two pre-congress fieldtrips of great interest for the INQUA project participants: 1) Antofagasta (N Chile) – Salta (N Arg.) transect and 2) III Region of Chile, between the coast to the Main Andean Cordillera (SERNAGEOMIN).


2.

Presentation of the activities of the 1311 project at the TERPRO Comm. Business Meeting, XIX INQUA Congress. Nagoya, JAPAN, 28 July 2015. http: //inqua2015.jp - http://www.terpro.org.ar/meetings.htm

Main activities conducted during the 1311project (2013-2015) were presented by the project coordinator (D. KRÖHLING) at the Business Meeting, coordinated by TERPRO President.

6.

People involved in activities during reporting year Name (in alphabetic order)

Germán Aguilar [email protected]

Alexandra Alvarado [email protected]

Daniel Ariztegui [email protected]

Institute

Researcher of Advanced Mining Technology Center, University of Chile, Santiago Instituto Geofisico Nacional del Ecuador, Quito Section of Earth & Environmental Sciences University of Geneva, Geneva

Marcelo Arnosio [email protected]

GEONORTEUniversidad Nacional de Salta, Salta

Mario L. Assine [email protected]

Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Rio Claro, SP FUNVISISVenezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research, Caracas

Franck Audemard M. [email protected] e

Laurence Audin [email protected]

ISTerre Univ.J.Fourier OSUG

Status PhD ECR DCR SS⃰

Country

Role

Chile

Participant/ Convener of Session at the Chilean. Geol Congr. (2015).

Ecuador

Participant

SS, DCR

(originally from Argentina)

Responsible for lacustrine processes

SS

Argentina

Coordinator Int. Field Course on S Central Andes Volcanism (2015)

SS, DCR

Brazil

Responsible for fluvial processes

Responsible for tectonics and paleoseismicit y/

SS, DCR

Participant

SS

DCR, ECR

Switzerland

Venezuela

France

SS, DCR


[email protected] Carlos Benavente Escobar [email protected] b.pe

Francisco H. Bezerra [email protected] r

Maximiliano Bezada [email protected]

Pablo Bouza [email protected]

Ernesto Brunetto [email protected]

Claudio Carignano [email protected]

José M. Cembrano Perasso [email protected]

Marcela Cioccale [email protected]

Andrea Coronato [email protected]

Maison des Géosciences Grenoble INGEMMETInstituto Geologico Minero y Metalurgico Lima

Peru

Participant

SS, DCR

Responsible for tectonics

SS, DCR

Brazil

Venezuela

Responsible for surficial processes

SS, DCR

CENPATCONICET Puerto Madryn

Argentina

Participant

SS, DCR

CICyTTPCONICET, Diamante, Entre Ríos Universidad Nacional de Córdoba & CICTERRA, CONICET, Córdoba Dept. Ingeniería Estructural y Geotécnica Pontificia Universidad Católica Universidad Nacional de Córdoba & CIGeS, Córdoba

Argentina

Participant

ECR, DCR

Argentina

Participant

Chile

Participant

SS, DCR

Argentina

Participant

SS, DCR

Argentina

Participant

SS, DCR

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Caracas

CONICET-CADIC, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego

SS, DCR


Francisco Córdoba francisco.e.cordoba@gmail. com

Carlos Costa [email protected] m

Reynaldo Charrier [email protected]

CONICET, CICTERRA & Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba

Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis Escuela de Ciencias de la Tierra, Univ. A.Bello and Dept. de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago

Fabrizio Gabino Delgado [email protected] [email protected]. pe

Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Lima

Gabriel González

Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta

Argentina

Participant

Argentina

Responsible for tectonics and paleoseismicit y

Chile

Participant/ Organization of Chilean Geol. Congress

ECR, DCR

SS, DCR

SS, DCR

Peru

Participant

Mg Sc student

Chile

Participant

SS, DCR

[email protected]

CIGIDEN (Nat. Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Manag.)

Orlando González

Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Caracas

Venezuela

Participant

DCR, ECR

CONICETInstituto Argentino de Oceanografía, Bahía Blanca

Argentina

Participant

SS, DCR

Argentina

Responsible for coastal and marine processes/

SS, DCR

[email protected] m.mx

Eduardo A. Gómez [email protected]

Federico I. Isla [email protected]

Marcelo Krause

CONICET & Centro de Geología de Costas y del Cuaternario, Univ. Nac. de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata CONICET & Museo

Responsible for

ECR,


Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe

Argentina

The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Santiago

USA (originally from Argentina)


SS

Chile

Participant

SS, DCR

Juan Pablo Milana [email protected]

InGeo–CONICET & Univ. Nac. de San Juan, San Juan

Argentina

Stella Maris Moreiras

CONICET (IANIGLA) & Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza

[email protected]

Daniela Kröhling [email protected]

Edgardo Latrubesse [email protected]

Luis E. Lara [email protected]

[email protected], [email protected]

Laura Perucca [email protected]

Eduardo Piovano [email protected]

Jorge Rabassa [email protected]

CONICET & Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan CIGeS, Universidad. Nacional de Córdoba & CONICETCICTERRA, Córdoba CADIC-CONICET, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego

Argentina

paleopedologi cal processes/ Project leader/ Responsible for aeolian processes/Org anizer Workshop in Chile. (2015)

Responsible for glacial and periglacial processes/ Leader Field Trip (Chile, 2015)

DCR

SS, DCR

SS, DCR

Argentina

Responsible for slope processes

Argentina

Participant

Argentina

Responsible for lacustrine processes

SS, DCR

Responsible for glacial and periglacial processes

SS, DCR

SS, DCR

SS, DCR

Argentina


Rodrigo Riquelme Salazar [email protected]

Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

Participant

SS, DCR

Chile

Participant

PhD student, DCR

Brazil

Participant

Argentina

Participant

Brazil


Argentina

Participant

Argentina

Participant

Antofagasta

Isabel Santibañez Boric [email protected]

André Oliveira Sawakuchi [email protected]

Franco Sobrero [email protected]

Dept. Ingeniería Estructural y Geotécnica Pontificia Universidad Católica Dept. Geologia Sedimentar e Ambiental Instituto de Geociências, Univ. de São Paulo, SP Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe

José C. Stevaux [email protected]

UNESP, Rio Claro, SP & Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá

Marcelo Toledo [email protected], [email protected]

YPF Exploración, Buenos Aires

Gustavo Villarosa [email protected]

GEA, INIBIOMA, CONICET-Univ. Nac. del Comahue, Bariloche

José Viramonte [email protected]

GEONORTE & CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta

ECR, DCR PhD student DCR SS, DCR

ECR, DCR

SS, DCR

Argentina

Responsible for volcanic processes/ Coordinator Int. Field Course on S. Central Andes Volcanism (2015)

SS, DCR


Participants of the Int. Workshop in La Serena (Chile, 2015) with partial travel grants: Name (in alphabetic order)

Institute

Country

Role

Eduardo Alarcón Guerra [email protected]

Department of Earth Sciences, Central Univ. of Venezuela (UCV) // FUNVISIS

Venezuela

Participant

Albert Cabre Cano [email protected]

Universidad de Atacama, Copiapo

Chile

Participant

Argentina

Participant

Chile

Participant and Co-Leader of Field Trip

Candela Francisconi [email protected]

Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe

Ayôn Garcia [email protected]

Pilar Jeanneret [email protected] Lara Trento [email protected]

Rafael Toural Dapoza [email protected]

Iván Vergara Dal Pont [email protected] om

Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó

Status PhD ECR DCR DCR, ECR

PhD student

PhD student, DCR PhD student ECR

Unidad de Tectónica y Geomorfología IANIGLA-CCT / Mendoza

Argentina

Participant

PhD student DCR

Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe

Argentina

Participant

PhD student, DCR

Unidad de Tectónica y Geomorfología IANIGLA-CCT / Mendoza

Argentina

Participant

PhD student DCR

Argentina

Participant

PhD student DCR

IANIGLACONICET Mendoza


7. Summary of accomplishments during report year (Please see the annex at this end of this report) The main accomplishments during 2015 include: The integration of research activities between geoscientists working on tectonics, volcanology and climatically driven process into a common objective, that is to complement different approaches/visions/interpretations of Quaternary processes for the specific target regions of the project, with a key involvement of more ECRs from different countries of SA. The organization of a final Workshop and Fieldtrip of the project (La Serena, Chile). They included presentations and discussions of new data from different morphotectonic environments of SAm, enhancing the participation of specialists from the SA countries. The main objective of the international meeting was to have a space for discussion by some of the formal participants of the project in order to enhance the exchange of information and strategies for the future objectives of geoscientists from SAm actively working in the Quaternary. The meeting also included the integration during the field excursion, with very open and extremely fruitful discussions, also facilitated by the preparation of field material. The exchange of experience within an international group of researchers, although very challenging in organization & logistics was then fruitful and valuable. In all the activities in 2015, ca. 60 participants from 8 countries were involved. The meetings focused on multidisciplinary discussions between the sub-groups of neotectonics and those sub-groups dedicated to the research of climatically driven processes of the Quaternary and the adaptation of common criteria for the use of all the information on the analyses of the landscape evolution. Discussions related to the organization of future fieldtrip meetings in other SAm environments (Venezuela, NE of Brazil and Peru), thinking on future proposals to new IFGs. The preparation of a special volume of Quaternary International (12/15 papers on SAm). The volume (D. Kröhling as main editor) will collect some selected contributions presented in the previous meetings of the project (2013/2015). In general, these contributions are based on advances generated on the integrated analyses of the tectonic-volcanic vs. climatic interplay on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution of the target regions of the project. The formal proposal of QI volume was sent to the Editor-in-Chief (N. Catto) at the end of the year 2014, and finally approved for the new Editorial team of QI (Min-Te Chen) on 14 July 2015. The volume will be published in 2016 (2 papers in press, 8 manuscripts submitted under revision and 5 in the final stage of preparation on 15 January, 2015). - Presentations of data in other international meetings in 2015 convened by coordinators and members of the project (XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, JAPAN; 6th INQUA Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology, Fuscino Basin, ITALY; 22nd Int. Meeting on Southern Central Andes Volcanism, Salta, ARGENTINA; 4th Workshop of INQUA Raisin Project & IUSS Comm. on Paleopedology "Soil And Paleosols of Brazil", Campinas, BRAZIL; Special Sessions at the Chilean Geological Congress, La Serena, CHILE, between others).


- The increasing of the visibility of the project and the IFG and the objective of this initiative between many other colleagues through multimedia and newsletter (e.g. Quaternary Perspectives, new issue, in press).

8.

List of publications during reporting year (Details are in the annex at the end of this project report)

During 2015 most of participants of the project have been involved as authors-or editors of special volumes, papers and proceedings dealing with Quaternary landscape history of SAm. After three years of data gathering and correlations across different regions of the continent, a special volume of Quaternary International was proposed at the end of 2014 to the Editor-in-Chief Prof. N. Catto. Selected presentations in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 project meetings will be included in this special issue. It is entitled: Interactions between Quaternary climatic forcing, tectonics and volcanism along some different tectonic settings of South America. Dr. Daniela Kröhling (Guest Editor), Dr. Asfawossen Asrat (Associate Editor). The proposal of volume was approved for the President of the new Editorial team of QI (Dr. Min-Te Chen) on 14 July 2015. The delay was because of the transition at QI to a new Editorial team. The initiative of the volume aims to show the state of knowledge reached in some regions of SAm. He hope that it could be a first volume of a series of publications displaying the combination of research activities by Quaternary geologists working on tectonics, volcanology and climatically driven process into a common objective that is to integrate-complement different approaches/interpretations of processes characterizing the Late Quaternary on a regional or sub-continental scale. In the Andean region, tectonic and volcanic processes generated significant changes in the landscape, in interaction with glacial, physical weathering, fluvial and mass transports processes. For intraplate extra-Andean SAm, surface deformation occurred also at unexpected locations, but with relative slow displacement rates. Hence, one of the objectives of the volume would be to present contributions dedicated to the distinction of features caused by major climatic changes from environmental variations induced by local or regional factors such as volcano-tectonic forcings along some representative regions of SAm, that are very important to enhance integrated analyses of the exogenic vs. endogenic processes interplay on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution. Numerical estimates of surface geological processes interplaying in different geological environments will be included in some contributions. Most of the first authors are active members of the IFG and the respective INQUA project. ECRs valued the opportunity of contributing their own data, giving more international exposure and a great opportunity to PhD student to better show the results of their investigations in an integrated basis. Initial Date for Submission: 15 September 2015. Deadline Date for Submission: 15 October 2016 Anticipated number of papers: 12/15


Preliminary list of contributions and authors of QI sp.vol: Sielfeld, G., Cembrano, J. & Lara, L. Transtension driving volcanic-edifice anatomy: insights from Andean transverse to the orogen tectonic domains, Chile. In press (accepted on 10 January, 2016). Nóbile, J.C., Martini, M.A. & Dávila, F.M. Cosmogenic 10Be denudation rates and geomorphometric analysis in the Ambato Range (28°-29° S), Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. In press (accepted on 12 January, 2016). Lima, J., Bezerra, F.H., Rossetti, D., de Castro, D. & Medeiros, W. Quaternary Fault reactivation controls morphology and sedimentation in the Paraíba basin, Northeastern Brazil (Submitted, under revision) Córdoba, F., Piovano, E, Guerra, L., Mulsow, S., Sylvestre, F. & Zárate, M.. 210Pb geochronology of sedimentary records from lakes under climate change in the southern Argentinean Pampas (Submitted, under revision) Guerra, L., Piovano, E.L., Córdoba, F. E., Tachikawa, K., Rostek, F., Garcia, M., Bard E. & Sylvestre, F. Limnogeological, instrumental and historical climatic change evidence from the Little Ice Age and the Current Warm Period in the Argentinean Pampas. (Submitted, under revision) Moreiras, S.M., Carretier, S., Páez, M., Giambiagi, L.B. & Jeanneret, P. Novel cosmogenic ages of moraine deposits in El Plata range (32ºS), Argentinean Central Andes. (Submitted, under revision) Vazquez, F., Costa, C. & Gardini, C. Testing scarps as deformation markers of Quaternary-active thrusts in the Southern Precordillera of Argentina. (Submitted, under revision) Brunetto, E., Kröhling, D., Francisconi, C. & Zalazar, M.C. Analysis of the interaction between neotectonic and surface processes in a low-land intracratonic setting of South America. (Submitted, under revision) Angel, I., Audemard, F., Carcaillet, J., Carrillo, E., Audin L. & Beck, C. Deglaciation history during the last 30 ka in the northernmost of Sierra Nevada, Venezuelan Andes Audin, L., Benavente, C., Costa, C., Cornejo, A., Saillard, M. & 2 authors. Climatic and neotectonic activity of the Andean Forearc: the Sama Calientes Fault System and the Caplina Valley, Peru Benavente, C., Delgado, F., García, B., Audin, L., Tavera, H., & Fídel, L. Ongoing active tectonics along the boundaries of major lithospheric blocks in the Andes of Southern Peru Bustos, M. S. & Georgieff, S. M. Climatic control and quantitative results on erosion and sediment yield in semiarid regions: Tapia–Trancas basin, Tucumán, Northwestern Argentina


Garcia Piña, A., Medina, C., Ulloa, C., Fisk, G., Campos Nazer, J. & Milana, J.P. Progressive replacement of glacial and cryospheric landforms as a result of increasing aridity near the arid diagonal of South America, as indicated by cryosphere inventory (Chilean Andes from 29 º30`S to 25º20´S) Milana, J.P., Conforti, C., Guedes, F. & Valdez Buso, V. A new geoarchive for timing climatic, fluvial and marine events of the Atlantic coast of Southern Brasil (c.6 ka to present) Milana, J.P., Espinoza, J. & Garcia Piña, A. Present day structure of snow fall from Atacama Desert to Puna Plateau, as an indication of different past climatic scenarios and as a tool for predicting desert hydrological resources Milana, J.P. & Schmok, J.P. Arid-glacier accumulation and ablation cycles as imaged from snow and ice high resolution GPR surveys across the Guanaco Glacier (Atacama Region, Chile) and a possible climatic reconstruction of the last 160 years Milana, J.P. & Kröhling, D. Unusual aeolian gravel dunes and giant megaripples at the Puna Plateau as a combined effect of strong winds and high availability of light-weight pumiceos clasts Ribeiro, L.M., Sallun Filho, W., Lima Filho, F.P.,Novello, V.F, Cruz Júnior, F.W. & Sawakuchi, A.O. An overview about the chronology and climate implications of Brazilian Quaternary fluvial carbonates (tufas) Cabré Cano, A., Aguilar Martorell, G. & Riquelme Salazar, R. Late-Quaternary evolution of a semiarid fluvial system in the western Andes slope: AMS 14C and 10Be data of glacial and alluvial deposits of the Transito River Valley, Northern Chile. Toledo, M.J. & Schewenninger, J.L. The climatic signature of OIS 4 to OIS 1 stadials and interstadials in Pampean valleys: geomorphology, depositional sequences and C14/OSL dating

A report for the next issue of Quaternary Perspectives related to results of the main Workshop of the 1311 project during 2014 entitled: Workshop of the SARA Project (South America Risk Assessment Project) on “Inventory of Quaternary Deformation of South America” (Global Earthquake Model, GEM) & Workshop of the 1311 INQUA project. Santiago (Chile), 17th-20th November, 2014 was sent to the editors. Authors: D. Kröhling and C. Costa. Extended abstracts in Proceedings of international meetings including presentations of members of the project, between others: -

XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, JAPAN (http://inqua2015.jp/ ) –D. Kröhling-


-

6th INQUA Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology, Fuscino Basin, ITALY (http://www.fucino2015.it) –C. Costa; F. Sobrero; F. Audemard; E. Alarcón Guerra-

-

4th Workshop of INQUA Raisin Project & IUSS Comm. on Paleopedology "Soil And Paleosols of Brazil", Campinas, BRAZIL (https://ppsg2011.uni-hohenheim.de/94442). -F. B. Ladeira.

-

Chilean Geological Congress, La Serena, CHILE (http://www.congresogeologicochileno.cl/) –E. Charrier; G. Aguilar; R. Riquelme; G. Gonzalez; J. Cembrano; C. Costa; JP Milana; D. Kröhling; A. Garcia; A. Cabre; E. Brunetto-

-

22nd Int. Meeting on Southern Central Andes Volcanism, Salta, ARGENTINA (http://www.unsa.edu.ar/~geonorte/cursos/curvol2013.htm) -J. Viramonte; M. Arnosio-

-

VI Argentine Congress on Quaternary and Geomorphology, Ushuahia, Tierra Del Fuego, Southern Patagonia; ARGENTINA (http://6cadecyg.wordpress.com/) – J. Rabassa; A. Coronatto; F. Isla; M. Cioccale-

9. Paragraph describing your aims and activities, to be included in Quaternary Perspectives. The SAm-GeoQuat IFG and the 2015 SAQint3 associated project is a collaborative group of mutual interest; with most of the participants are senior scientists (SS), early-career researchers (ECRs) and young researchers from South American (SA) institutions that in general have limited resources to keep their involvement in international scientific activities. In the framework of the project activity for the final year of the intercongress period a central international workshop (La Serena, Chile) and an associated fieldtrip were conducted. These activities provide excellent opportunities to present results to a range of appropriate scientists, and to discuss on problems, interpretation and correlation between regions. Also, the project has reinforced a specific research topic (neotectonic) in different geomorphological environments of SA (Andean and extra-Andean regions). The possibility to offer grants from this INQUA project to ECRs and PhD students of different countries to participate in the international meeting organized is highly valuable on this continent, with relative minor offers of this kind of initiatives. The main task of produce advances related to tectonics and surface processes interaction in a continent with a great potential for this type of studies is the special volume of Quaternary International in present edition that will be published in 2016. It include papers of the project participants working in key SA regions and focusing on integrated analyses of the tectonicvolcanic vs. climatic interplay on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution.


10.

Breakdown of use of the INQUA funding.

The awarded funds in 2015 for the 1311 project (€ 5000) have been mainly dedicated to the organization of the Central Workshop (La Serena, Chile) and the associated Fieldtrip meeting. Ca. 50 geoscientists from different SAm countries and also from Spain and USA attended both meetings in total. The largest part of that money has been dedicated to cover travel and accommodation costs of 6 PhD students and 2 ECRs from Venezuela, Chile and Argentina for the Int. Workshop and Fieldtrip. The rest of the money has been dedicated to cover partial costs related to the organization of the fieldtrip and centralized cost for organization of the meeting for the organizers of the meeting. It is important to remark that there were no other financial funds to cover the organization costs.

Electronic (scanned) copies of receipts for the expenditures are added in attached pdf.

Money awarded in reporting year: € 5000 Total spent in reporting year: € 5000 Unspent money in reporting year: € 0

Leader: D. KRÖHLING (Argentina)

Date: 25 January, 2016.


ANNEX 1. Announcement of the Central Workshop of the project:

Workshop of the Sam-GeoQuat Group and 1311 INQUA project "Interactions between Quaternary climatic forcing, tectonics and volcanism along different tectonic settings of South America" INQUA Focus Group - TERPRO Commission of INQUA http://www.terpro.org.ar/meetings.htm

XIV Chilean Geological Congress La Serena, Chile; 5th October 2015, 9:00-16:00 hs. Coordinator: Dr. Daniela Kröhling (Argentina)

The closing meeting of the 1311 INQUA project will be a space for discussion in order to enhance the exchange of information and strategies for the future objectives of geoscientists actively working in the Quaternary of South America. Also future activities of networking will be deeply discussed. The central point for discussions will be the final edition of the special volume of Quaternary International that will collect some selected contributions presented in the previous meetings of the 1311 project. In general, these contributions are based on advances generated on the integrated analyses of the tectonic-volcanic vs. climatic interplay on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution of the target regions of the project The program consists of: (i) an introduction to the project, with a presentation of the general activities during the years 2013/2015, by the leader of the 1311 project. (ii) conferences by invited Senior Scientists of the 1311 project. (iii) oral presentations by Earlier Career Researchers (ECRs), in general selected for receiving the INQUA partial travel grant. (iv) a round-table discussion led by formal participants of the Group and ECRs participants of the workshop. Possibilities for common efforts to improve our knowledge on Late Quaternary processes on the continent and the future of the Focus Group will be analyzed. Also different ways to increase the participation of South American geoscientists in INQUA activities will be deeply discussed. (v) a field trip in the coastal area of La Serena (Leaders: Juan Pablo Milana and Ayon García Piña) 7th October. The coastal ridges and dunes of La Serena Norte, in Coquimbo Bay portraying the last 6000 years of coastal evolution.


PROGRAM OF THE WORKSHOP -5th October 2015- (Speakers in capital letters) 09:00- 09:20 hs. Introduction to the Workshop: 09:00-09:15 hs. Daniela KRÖHLING (Argentina; Leader of the F.Group and the 1311 INQUA Proj.). 09:20-10:40 hs. Invited speakers: 09:20-09:50 hs. Carlos COSTA, Argentina (training conference). "Passive vs. active control of neotectonic structures on the landscape". 10:00-10:30 hs. Juan Pablo MILANA, Argentina (conference). "The Global Warming Paradigm applied to southern South America: a vision of the upper Holocene processes from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast". 10:40-11:00 hs. Cofee Break. 11:00-12:40 hs. Oral presentations: 11:00-11:15 hs. Eduardo ALARCÓN GUERRA & André Singer (Venezuela). "Observations on planation surfaces in the Venezuelan Andes as markers of neotectonic deformation". 11:20-11:35 hs. Rafael TOURAL DAPOZA (Argentina). "Active tectonics in Mendoza, Central Andes, Argentina: Insights from geomorphic indexes and drainage pattern analysis". 11:40-11:55 hs. Albert CABRE CANO (Chile). "Landslides in the Andes. Study case in Huasco River Valley, Atacama Region, Chile, and its fluvial dynamics relevance." 12:00- 12:15 hs. Ayôn GARCIA, Christopher Ulloa, Catherine Medina, Gonzalo Amigo & Juan Pablo Milana (Chile). "Progressive replacement of cryospheric landforms as a result of increasing aridity near the arid diagonal of South America, Central Andes" 12:20-12:35 hs. Stella M. Moreiras, Sebastien Carretier & Pilar JEANNERET (Argentina). "Late Pleistocene moraines of the Plata range (32ºS), Argentina, Central Andes". 12:40-14:20 hs. Lunch. 14:20-15:20 hs. Oral presentations: 14:20-14:35 hs. Lara TRENTO & Daniela Kröhling (Argentina). "Paleosurfaces of the Parana Basaltic Plateau discriminated from morphometric analysis. The Iguazu river basin (Argentina and Brazil) as a case of study" 14:40-14:55 hs. Candela FRANCISCONI, Ernesto Brunetto & Daniela Kröhling (Argentina). "Digital elevation models applied on the study of geomorphic process of North Pampa, Argentina"


15:00-15:15 hs. Iván VERGARA DAL PONT (Argentina). "Qualitative analyses of coastal dynamics at the Negro River mouth, Argentinean Patagonia". 15:30-18:00 hs. Short plenary discussion.

FIELD TRIP IN THE COASTAL AREA OF LA SERENA NORTE -7th October 2015"The coastal ridges and dunes of La Serena Norte, Coquimbo Bay, portraying the last 6000 years of coastal evolution" Leaders: Juan Pablo MILANA (Argentina) and Ayôn GARCIA (Chile).


2. Application form (for selection of PhD students and ECRs to receive grants) Workshop of the Sam-GeoQuat Group and 1311 INQUA project Interactions between Quaternary climatic forcing, tectonics and volcanism along some different tectonic settings of South America

INQUA Focus Group - TERPRO Commission of INQUA http://www.terpro.org.ar/ - http://www.inqua.org/

La Serena (CHILE), XIV Congreso Geológico Chileno, 4-8 October 2015

FICHA DE INSCRIPCIÓN APPLICATION FORM Apellido y nombre (Last name and name): D.N.I. Nº (Passport Nº): Edad (Age): Domicilio (Address): Ciudad (City) and C.P. (Zip code): País (Country): Correo electrónico (E-mail): Teléfono (Phone): Seguro de vida (Póliza Nº)-Life insurance (Nº):

Título (Degree):

Expedido por (Institution): Estudios de Postgrado (Postgraduate studies): En caso de que tenga un doctorado, indique tema, fecha e institución otorgante (In the case you have a PhD, please indicate year PhD awarded, theme and institution): Doctorado en curso –institución y tema de tesis- (PhD under progress –institution and theme-):


Ocupación (Position-job): Institución (Institutional affiliation): ANTECEDENTES DE LOS POSTULANTES (CANDIDATE´S BACKGROUND) - Mencione las actividades de investigación de tiempo completo que haya realizado en los últimos 5 años y la institución donde las desarrolló (Full time research activities that you have done in the last five years and the institution of development). - Pertenece a alguna red o grupo de investigación? Indique su nombre y Coordinador (Do you integrate a network or research group? Name of the group and Coordinator?). - Está desarrollando o involucrado actualmente en proyectos de investigación vinculados a la temática del meeting? (Are you involved in research projects related to the topics of this meeting?) - Cuáles son sus motivaciones por participar de este meeting? (Main interests in participating on this meeting?): - Cuál sería el beneficio o impacto de esta participación para usted y sus actividades de investigación? (What would be the benefit or impact on this participation for you and your research?)

- Interés en recibir ayuda parcial que permita cubrir parte de los gastos de estadía y/o traslado a Santiago de Chile -considerando que el número de becas es limitado-? (Are you interested in receiving a partial subvention to cover a part of the travel costs y/or accommodation in Santiago de Chile –considering that the number of grants is limited-?)

- Interés en participar en actividades futuras de INQUA en SA? (Are you interested in participating in future INQUA activities in SA?)

INFORMACION ADICIONAL (ADDITIONAL INFORMATION) Adjuntar Cv (Please, attach Cv).

Contact:

Dr. Daniela Kröhling. Coordinador 1311 INQUA Project (SAQint3- Interactions between climatic forcing, tectonics and volcanism during the Late Quaternary: a multidisciplinary approach applied on key regions of South America). ARGENTINA. E-mail: [email protected]


The Workshop of the 1311 project in La Serena.

A view of the hotel were the Workshop was hosted and La Serena and Coquimbo, affected by the tsunami.


The coast of La Serena and Coquimbo, affected by the tsunami (Illapel earthquake M: 8.4; 16 Sept. 2015)

Field excursión, included the colection of GPR data (La Serena Norte; JP Milana and A. Garcia, coordinators)


The participants of the Fieldtrip in La Serena Norte, Chile

One of the posters discussed in the fieldtrip


Some of the extended abstracts of the meeting




3. Presentations of data in other international meetings in 2015 convened by

coordinators and members of the project 3.1. XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, JAPAN


Presentation of the activities of the 1311 project at the TERPRO Commission Meeting

3.2. 6th INQUA Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology,

FUSCINO BASIN, ITALY. Participation of C.COSTA (invited speaker) and F. SOBRERO (ECR), both from Argentina.



SURFACE RUPTURE DATABASE WORKSHOP In the framework of IAEA/ISSC-EBP and INQUA working groups Supported and organized by IRSN (Institut Radioprotection Sûreté Nucléaire) 28-30 october 2015; Paris – Fontenay-aux-Roses Objectives of the Workshop: Improve and upgrade “Surface Rupture Database” used for Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis. Generate a standardized method to describe primary and distributed surface rupture to feed PFDHA calculations Contributors (Core of the Earthquake Geologist Group): 1. Tim Dawson (CGS, USA) 2. Jim McCalpin (Geo-Haz consulting, USA) 3. Makoto Takao (TEPCO, Japan) 4. Koji Okumura (U. Hiroshima, Japan) 5. Alessandro Michetti (U. Insubria, Como, Italy) 6. Luca Guerrieri (ISPRA, Italy) 7. Francesca Cinti (INGV, Italy) 8. Pilar Villamor (GNS New Zealand) 9. Carlos Costa (U. San Juan, Argentina) 10. Richard Walker (NERC-COMET, UK) 11. Yoshi Fukushima (IAEA) 12. Stéphane Baize and Oona Scotti (IRSN, France)


3.3. 4th Workshop of INQUA Raisin Project & IUSS Comm. on Paleopedology "Soil And Paleosols of Brazil"- Participation as coordinator of F.B. LADEIRA.

4. Past meeting of the 1311 INQUA project in Quaternary Perspectives (next issue in press): Workshop of the SARA Project (South America Risk Assessment Project) on “Inventory of Quaternary Deformation of South America” (Global Earthquake Model, GEM) & Workshop of the 1311 INQUA project. Santiago (Chile), 17th-20th November, 2014 Authors: Daniela Kröhling1, Carlos H. Costa2 1 CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, 2 Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina.

This has been the main meeting for the year 2014 of the Sam-GeoQuat IFG and the 1311 Project. This was organized under the framework of GEM (http://www.globalquakemodel.org/) and sponsored by the INQUA project. It took place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) in Santiago as a departure point of the scheduled activities of the “Inventory of Hazardous Structures of South America” project (C. COSTA, leader), a topic layer of the South America Risk Assessment (SARA) effort. The goal of the meeting was to set up common agreements within the region for compiling potentially seismogenic structures under uniform standards….


5. Some publications (2015) of some of active members (SS) during 2015 (C. COSTA, JP MILANA, FH BEZERRA, D. KROHLING)



6. Special Volume of Quaternary International (in edition)

