Landscape Evolution in Glacier Valleys of Glaciokarsts

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Author,

This is an article that will make an important contribution to the literature. However, it contains too many similarities with the book study in the link below. This will cause technical plagiarism. For this reason, the study needs revision. Yours sincerely.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97292-3

Author Response

• Thank you for your work.
• Since this is a review, it is obvious that there are similarities with my other work. The legends for figures are the same as those in the book Glaciokarsts.

Reviewer 2 Report

Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper. I enjoyed an overview and review of our understanding of glaciokarst in valleys and think this is relevant to the literature and community.

 

I think one thing that will be important for this paper is undergo extensive proofreading and editing for English and grammar. There are many sentences in this paper that are difficult to follow without really slowing down to think about what is trying to be said. The science itself is appropriate, but the conventions of the writing make following this very difficult. I am not going to leave comments for how to fix these issues as it is quite extensive and outside what I think the role of peer review should be.

 

With the citations, be sure that they “references” list is numbered so we can see what is tied back to for the in-text citations. With this being a review paper, I would expect that there would be significantly more citations that are summarizing everything. I would encourage exploring additional case studies / examples.

 

Lines 84-88 – I’d like to see this idea explored further with respect to maximum thicknesses.

 

Lines 88-90 – Need citation(s).

 

Throughout, since this is a review paper, it may be worth considering developing a glossary type thing for the karst terminology as there are some differences between American and European terms.

 

Figure 9 – Maybe number the sinkholes in a different way – the numbers on numbers is hard to follow.

See comments above. 

Author Response

• Thank you for your work.
• I checked the references.
• I modified references including further glaciokarst areas.
• cover thickness – I have rewritten.
• Karstic features – I have put the reference.
• I do not think that a glossary should be included since it does not fall into the scope of the study.
• I corrected Figure 9.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear author,

The article can be printed in its current form. I wish you success in your work.