Original paper
Reply to Gosse & Evenson: Reinterpretation of the evidence for a significant neoglacial ice advance in the Rio Atuel valley, Mendoza Province, Argentina
Garleff, K.; Stingl, H.
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Volume 38 Issue 3 (1994), p. 339 - 342
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published: Sep 29, 1994
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Abstract
The evidence for a significant Neoglacial ice advance in the Rio Atuel valley has important consequences for the paleoclimatic interpretation, i. e. the climatic history of this transitional region between the Patagonian humid zone of the westerlies and the semiarid to arid subtropical zone of the High Andes of Cuyo. Therefore the discussion of this topic, partly initiated by our publication (Stingl & Garleff 1978), continued by further investigations (Garleff & Stingl 1984 etc.) and the above mentioned investigation of Gosse & Evenson, may find some interest. A fundamental question in the argumentation of Gosse & Evenson is the interpretation of forms and materials damming up a mid-Holocene lake in the Atuel valley as debris slides, whereas we are convinced that essential parts of these phenomena are of glacial origin.
Keywords
Neoglacial • paleoclimatic • mid-Holocene • debris • Rio Atuel • Patagonia • Argentina