Just when I’d despaired of ever seeing anything as mundane as a
site map of the Quelccaya glacier on a scale that did not also
show all of South America, I stumbled (due to the wonders of
google) on an interesting article by Mark et al (2002), a
geologist from Ohio State – the same university as Lonnie
Thompson – on glacial moraines in the Quelccaya area. Of course
neither the NAS panel nor Thompson deign to cite an article as
mundane as one by a geologist. It was nice to read an article
that focussed on the presentation of facts without moralizing
all the time. I’ve mentioned that I’d like to see other
stratigraphic and contextual information relative to the report
of the 5000-year old Distachia reported in a recent pamphlet by
Thompson – that it was published in PNAS does not elevate
Thompson et al 2006 from being IMHO a "pamphlet". In any event,
I’ve teased out some information including this from Mark eet al
2002: Other peat exposed at the modern ice margin [from their
Table 1, this appears to have been c