Some problems in using landforms as evidence for climatic change
Date
1980
Authors
Marker, M. E.
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Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Landforms are used as evidence for past climatic conditions on the basis of morphoclimatic
explanation. Problems arise because the relationships from climatic parameters through process
to landforms are not direct. The problems inherent in employing landform evidence are
discussed under the headings: Recognition, Interpretation, Application, Correlation and
Chronology.
It is concluded that certain landforms provide unequivocal evidence for climatic change
even though landform evidence must always be circumstantial. An individual landform alone
does not prove climatic change although an entire assemblage exhibiting similar tendencies
might. Where, however, evidence from other areas and other lines of evidence also point to
the same conditions, then the conclusions may be accepted more securely. Landform evidence
has a place in Quaternary studies, but it must be used with caution.
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