Late quaternary snowlines and cirque moraines within the Waimakariri watershed

A study of the glacial geology and present and past snowlines of tributaries to the Waimakariri River, South Island, New Zealand, has yielded a glacial chronology from late Pleistocene times up to the present day. Three advances of the ultimate (Otiran) Pleistocene glaciation were recognized and na...

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Main Author: Chinn, T. J. H.
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Geology 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6848