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Comment on 'A multidisciplinary overview of the lower Miño River terrace system (NW Iberian Peninsula)' by E. Méndez-Quintas et al
- Source :
- Quaternary International, 565, 125-128. Elsevier, Quaternary International, Quaternary International, 2020, 565, pp.125-128. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.036⟩, Quaternary International, Elsevier, 2020, 565, pp.125-128. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.036⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The paper by E. Mendez-Quintas et al. (2020) aims to give an interdisciplinary overview of the lower Mino River terrace record in NW Iberia by combining geological and archaeological data. The authors also pretend to re-interpret the geological-geomorphological evolution of this river by presenting new data and by comparing them to data published in our five related papers. However, a wrong interpretation of the data they present as well as incorrect and selective citations of ours lead to the production of a publication containing numerous errors. The most flagrant ones are the mapping of fluvial terraces on one side of the river only and an incorrect interpretation of the sedimentological information used to correlate terrace remnants along-river. This results in incorrect longitudinal profile reconstructions and an improper proposal of the evolution of the Mino terraces that is even contradicted by the data they present. On the upside, the ages of the Porto Maior terrace site published by these authors confirm our previously published longitudinal profile reconstructions and evolutionary model of the Mino valley.
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Fluvial
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Archaeology
Terrace (geology)
Peninsula
Multidisciplinary approach
ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10406182
- Volume :
- 565
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quaternary International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3cf9f675e3c6c3d8655096a598467f5d