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New Zealand glacial chronologyM. L. Leamy aa Department of Scientific and Industrial Research ,Soil Bureau , WellingtonPublished online: 24 Jan 2012.

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Professor Gage (1971) has directed attention to some of the anomalies which have resulted from establishing a chronology mainly on conventional geologic criteria and has inferred that evidence from other relevant disciplines, particularly pedology, is needed before the New Zealand Quaternary is exposed to international scrutiny at the IX INQUA Congress in Christchurch in 1973. Many New Zealand pedologists have held a similar view for some time, and over the last five years, four workshops on loess deposits have been held. The first two, held in South Canterbury and in Otago-Southland, invc1ved only Soil Bureau staff, and were designed to establish uniform standards for paleosol recognition and to promote co-ordination among pedologists working in loess regicns. Some of the conclusions from these meetings were published in an issue of New Zealand Soil News which was mainly devoted to paleopedology (Bruce et al., 1969). The third loess work­shop was held in the Danks Peninsula-North Canterbury region, and was attended by pedologist., and a soil chemist from Soil Bureau, and a botanist from Botany Division, DSIR. A publication by Bailey (1971), and a comprehensive internal report on charcoals occurring in loess, were two direct results of this meeting. The fcurth loess workshop was held in the Manawatu-Wanganui region in May 1971, and included participants from Soil Bureau, Geological Survey, and Botany Division of DSIR, the Geology Department of Victoria University, as well as Dr E. C. A. Runge, Associate Professor of Pedology at the University of Illinois, who was visiting Lincoln College. At this meeting acccunts were g;ven of current pedological work in the Rangitikei Valley and current paleopedological research on the loess deposits of Timaru:. In addition, 19 abstracts of papers relevant to Quaternary pedology were submitted and discussed. There was unanimous agreement that the loess workshop should be expanded in scope and it was decided [0 e3tablish a Working Party on the Pedology of the New Zealand Quaternary, including representatives of Soil Bureau, Geological Survey, Botany Division, and Institute of Nuclear Sciences of DSIR, and of the Universities. The primary objective of this working party will be to msure that a satisfactory pedological ccntribution will be made to the New Zealand glacial chronology by 1973.

29 June 1971 M. L. LEAMY, Chief Pedologist, Soil Bureau, Department of Scientific and Industrial

Research, Wellington

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BRUCE, ]. G.; GRIFFITHS, E.; LEAMY, M. 1.; TOMLINSON, P. R. 1969: Notes on Paleosols in Otago and Southland loess Deposits. New Zealand Soil News 17: 83-5.

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