Comment on 'A multidisciplinary overview of the lower Miño River terrace system (NW Iberian Peninsula)' by E. Méndez-Quintas et al

Autor: R.T. van Balen, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez, W. Viveen, Jeroen M. Schoorl, Régis Braucher, Didier Bourlès, A. Veldkamp, J.R. Vidal-Romani
Přispěvatelé: UT-I-ITC-FORAGES, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Department of Natural Resources, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), University of Twente, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), University of A Coruña (UDC), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), University of Twente [Netherlands]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: 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⟩
ISSN: 1040-6182
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.036⟩
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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