Response to Comment on "Absence of Cooling in New Zealand and the Adjacent Ocean During the Younger Dryas Chronozone"
Timothy T. Barrows,1*
Scott J. Lehman,2
L. Keith Fifield,3
Patrick De Deckker1
Applegate
et al. present the results of a moraine degradation
model and suggest that the age of the Waiho Loop may be 1000
years older than the age we presented, thus raising the possibility
that the moraine is a Younger Dryas landform. We show that this
assessment is misleading on a number of grounds.
2 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Campus Box 450, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
3 Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Tim.Barrows{at}anu.edu.au
