The Waiho Loop moraine in New Zealand's southern Alps had long been viewed as a southern icon of a recent glacier response to cooling climate, possibly the Younger Dryas cold event. But a closer look has implicated a landslide in this particular glacial advance.
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Evans, D. Avalanches and moraines. Nature Geosci 1, 493–494 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo255
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