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Layer: GNS Glacial Geomorphic Units (ID: 3)

Name: GNS Glacial Geomorphic Units

Display Field: SOURCECODE

Type: Feature Layer

Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon

Description: The central part of the South Island of New Zealand contains an array of landforms produced by the action of glaciers, spanning from prehistoric time through to the present day. Glaciers are expressions of atmospheric climatic conditions, and their advances and retreats, as recorded by distinctive landforms, provide a measure of past climate changes. As one of the few landmasses in the Southern Hemisphere, and especially one where glaciers have had a persistent presence, New Zealand’s glacier record is an important piece of information for enquiry into the natural behaviour of Earth’s climate system. The central South Island record benefits from having modern glaciers, whose historic behaviour provides an analogue for the interpretation of the prehistoric record. In addition, the prehistoric record provides context to the widespread retreat of Southern Alps glaciers within the last hundred years or so, and questions about future climate change. The central South Island glacial geomorphological (CSIGG) digital database documents these landforms. This dataset was used to generate the printed 1:100,000 geomorphological map, on a five-sheet large-format cut-up, that was enclosed in GNS Science Monograph 27 (Barrell et al., 2011).

Service Item Id: 6d9634911be546f6a1bd0edad768499c

Copyright Text: GNS Science

Default Visibility: true

MaxRecordCount: 1000

Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF

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Max Scale: 100000.0

Supports Advanced Queries: true

Supports Statistics: true

Has Labels: false

Can Modify Layer: true

Can Scale Symbols: false

Use Standardized Queries: true

Supports Datum Transformation: true

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Drawing Info: Advanced Query Capabilities:
HasZ: false

HasM: false

Has Attachments: false

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Type ID Field: null

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Supported Operations:   Query   Query Attachments   Query Analytic   Generate Renderer   Return Updates

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