View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Digital.CSIC The last deglaciation in the Picos de Europa National Park (Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain) Ana Moreno1,2,3, Blas L. Valero-Garcés2,3, Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez4, María José Domínguez-Cuesta4, M. Pilar Mata5, Ana Navas6, Penélope González-Sampériz2, Heather Stoll4, Pedro Farias4, Mario Morellón2, J. Pablo Corella2, and Mayte Rico2 1Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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[email protected]. 3Laboratorio Internacional de Cambio Global (LINCGlobal), Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, PUC, Alameda 340, PC 6513677, Santiago, Chile 4Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Arias de Velasco, s/n 33005 Oviedo, Spain.
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[email protected] Abstract A sedimentological and geochemical study of the Lago Enol sequence (Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain) together with detailed geomorphological mapping provides a first record of glacier evolution and climate change over the last 40,000 years in the Picos de Europa National Park. The Enol glacier retreated from its maximum extent prior to 40 kyr BP as demonstrated by the onset of proglacial lacustrine sedimentation in two glaciated depressions, the Comella Hollow to the north (before 40 kyrs BP) and the Lago Enol (before 38 kyrs BP).