Comment on Barrell et al. “Reconciling the Onset of Deglaciation in the Upper Rangitata Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand” (Quaternary Science Reviews 203 (2019), 141–150.)
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume
219
Publisher
Pergamon Press
Publication Date
6-10-2019
First Page
312
Last Page
315
Abstract
Recently, Barrell et al. (2019) published an article that responded to our article (Shulmeister et al., 2018a) on gradual evacuation of ice from the Upper Rangitata Valley, South Island, New Zealand, during the last glaciation. They base their contrasting interpretation of substantial and rapid ice-lowering of Rangitata glacier shortly after 18 ka on a revision of our 10Be cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) chronology and by reference to published sources (e.g. Mabin, 1980, 1987). Their interpretation relies on glacial landform features extracted from a geomorphology map of the central Southern Alps by Barrell et al. (2011). Barrell et al. (2019) highlight that rapid ice recession of the Rangitata glacier is compatible to their results from Mackenzie Basin and Rakaia Valley (Putnam et al., 2013a, b). We highlight four points in response to Barrell et al. (2019):
Recommended Citation
Shulmeister, J., Fink, D., Winkler, S., Thackray, G.T., Borsellino, R., Hemmingsen, M., Rittenour, T.M., 2019. Comment on Barrell et al. “Reconciling the onset of deglaciation in the Upper Rangitata valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand” (Quaternary Science Reviews 203 (2019), 141 – 150.) Quaternary Science Reviews 219, 312-315 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.023
