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Pleistocene Terraces of the Alto Henares (Guadalajara), Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bruce G. Gladfelter
Bruce G. Gladfelter*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, USA
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Abstract

A suite of four terraces in the upper Rio Henares drainage system (Rio Tajo basin) now provides a partial geomorphological link between the Middle Pleistocene, Lower Paleolithic archeological sites at Ambrona and Torralba (upper Ebro basin) and those in the vicinity of Madrid. The Campiña and Low Terrace features are shown by radiocarbon dating to be of Holocene and Würm ages, respectively, while the Middle and High Terraces are best designated as being Middle and Lower Pleistocene ages, respectively. Stratigraphic relationships between the upper and lower Rio Henares segments need to be established.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 473 - 486
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Academic Press, Inc.

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