Publications by authors named "Diego Winocur"
Article Synopsis
- Landslides in deglaciated mountains, particularly in Southern Patagonia, pose significant hazards, yet their broader distribution has been under-researched.
- Traditional models suggest landslides occur mainly in the steep, wet, and tectonically active regions where glaciers were thickest.
- However, this study reveals that the largest landslides cluster in the eastern margins of the former Patagonian Ice Sheet, in less active and drier areas, where unstable sediment and volcanic rocks are more prevalent.
Although the dynamics of individual rock-slope failures above recently shrinking glaciers have received increasing study, less is known about the spatial distribution of landslides in paraglacial settings. Here, we present a landslide inventory for large deglaciated area (~100,000 km) situated within the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) limits of the Northern Patagonian Icefield (NPI). Using satellite images and the TanDEM-X digital elevation model, we mapped a total of 15,543 landslides, among which 1006 are deep-seated landslides (DSLs) with area ≥0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present isotopic and morphometric evidence suggesting the migration of farmers in the southern Andes in the period AD 1270-1420, leading up to the Inka conquest occurring ~ AD 1400. This is based on the interdisciplinary study of human remains from archaeological cemeteries in the Andean Uspallata Valley (Argentina), located in the southern frontier of the Inka Empire. The studied samples span AD 800-1500, encompassing the highly dynamic Late Intermediate Period and culminating with the imperial expansion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The goal of this article is to assess the scale of human paleomobility and ecological complementarity between the lowlands and highlands in the southern Andes during the last 2,300 years. By providing isotope results for human bone and teeth samples, we assess a hypothesis of "high residential mobility" suggested on the basis of oxygen isotopes from human remains.
Methods: We develop an isotopic assessment of human mobility in a mountain landscape combining strontium and oxygen isotopes.