Late Pleistocene glacial stratigraphy of the Kumara-Moana region, West Coast of South Island, New Zealand

Date

2013

Authors

Barrows, Timothy T.
Almond, P
Fifield, L Keith
Rose, Robert
Mills, Stephanie C
Tims, Stephen

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

On the South Island of New Zealand, large piedmont glaciers descended from an ice cap on the Southern Alps onto the coastal plain of the West Coast during the late Pleistocene. The series of moraine belts and outwash plains left by the Taramakau glacier a

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Keywords: Cosmogenic nuclides; Exposure dating; Glacial geomorphology; Last Glacial Maximum; Late Pleistocene; New zealand; Palaeoclimate; West coast; Atmospheric temperature; Isotopes; Stratigraphy; Glacial geology; beryllium isotope; coastal morphology; coastal p 10Be; 36Cl; Cosmogenic nuclide; Exposure dating; Glacial geomorphology; Last glacial maximum; Late Pleistocene; New Zealand; Palaeoclimate; West Coast

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Journal article

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