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A glacial test of timing

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Meticulous reconstruction of the former extent of a glacier high in the mountains of New Zealand will help in interpreting global-scale climatic adjustments that occurred at the end of the last glaciation.

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Figure 1: Evidence of glacial action: a view of the mountain basin studied by Kaplan et al.3.

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  1. Martin P. Kirkbride is in the Environmental Systems Research Group, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK. m.p.kirkbride@dundee.ac.uk ,

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Kirkbride, M. A glacial test of timing. Nature 467, 160–161 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467160a

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