Glacial limitation of tropical mountain height

Cunningham, Maxwell T.; Stark, Colin P.; Kaplan, Michael R.; Schaefer, Joerg M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-147-2019

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-147-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-147-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Research article

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31 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2019

Glacial limitation of tropical mountain height

Maxwell T. Cunningham, Colin P. Stark, Michael R. Kaplan, and Joerg M. Schaefer

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RC1: 'Review of: Glacial buzzcutting limits the height of tropical mountains, by Maxwell T. Cunningham et al.', Peter van der Beek, 14 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Rev. 1', Maxwell Cunningham, 14 Sep 2018
EC1: 'Review comments', David Lundbek Egholm, 30 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Rev. 1', Maxwell Cunningham, 14 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Rev. 2', Maxwell Cunningham, 14 Sep 2018

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AR by Maxwell Cunningham on behalf of the Authors (22 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Dec 2018) by David Lundbek Egholm

ED: Publish as is (21 Dec 2018) by Andreas Lang (Editor)

AR by Maxwell Cunningham on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2019)

Short summary

Glacial erosion is known to limit the height of midlatitude mountain ranges affected by substantial glaciation during cold periods. Our study examines this phenomenon in the tropics. A new form of hypsometric analysis, along with other evidence, of 10 tropical ranges reveals widespread signs of a perched glacial base level at the ELA. Although glacial influence is moderate to weak in these environments, the evidence suggests that glacial erosion acts to limit the height of tropical ranges.