¿Registro de un paleoincendio en el límite Plioceno-Pleistoceno de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza (Granada, España)?

• Autores: José Eugenio Ortiz Menéndez, María Filomena Valle Hernández, M. Badal,, Juan Francisco Llamas Borrajo, Ángel Luis Cortés Gracia, A. Vela
• Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 36, 2004, págs. 171-174
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper deals with the organic geochemistry of a "lignite" bed at the bottom of the Guadix-Baza composite stratotype section, just below the end of the Olduvai Chron. The results of the organic matter analysis (Iow H/C ratio and predominance of even n-alkanes) together with the lack of pollen and micromammal remains as well as the abundance of charcoal particles, suggest the development 01 the first wild-fire in the Mediterranean realm, which affected the catchment area of the alluvial fan that fed the Cortes de Baza area.