Glacial activity in New Zealand near the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the light of new radiocarbon dates |
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| Authors: | COLIN J. BURROWS TREVOR CHINN MICHAEL KELLY |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Botany, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;Department of Geology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NewZealand;Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LAI 4YQ, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Burrows, C. J., Chinn, T. & Kelly, M. 1976 08 01: Glacial activity in New Zealand near the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the light of new radiocarbon dates.
Although glaciers in New Zealand were diminishing from the late Pleistocene onwards, there remained an extensive ice cover, greater than at present, well into early Holocene. The Birch Hill advances are dated to just before the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary at 10,000 B.P., and at least two lesser advances are recognised, at 9000 B.P. and 8000 B.P. A general parallel with northern hemisphere glacial activity is drawn. |
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