Morphology of Dome- and Tepee-Like Landforms Generated by Expansive Hydration of Weathering Anhydrite: A Case Study at Dingwall, Nova Scotia, Canada

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article resembles a good scientific and technical report on the work done and contains excerpts and figures from previous publications of the authors devoted to the area under consideration. The article could be shortened.

Author Response

Thank you for your comment and suggestion. We do not repeat any figure from previous articles and we tried to keep the text as short as possible. We hope that manuscript explain discussed issues in clear and  unambiguous way.

Reviewer 2 Report

I am very impressive this work reported a whole framework for specific area on dome- and tepee-like landforms in Canada, which is interesting to geomorphologic community. The overall presentation is very clear and easy to follow. Here I listed some suggestions for authors' references as follows:

1.      Please check the length of abstract to see if it meets the journal requirement, because it looks a little bit long.

2.      To address the objectives, the authors may give some photos for studied landforms as an example, to make the reader clearer to follow.

From the above-mentioned concerns, a well-designed organization of this manuscript makes me feeling suitable for publication, but some necessary minor revision works should be done before that.

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Reviewer 3 Report

You have described an unusual geological situation - congratulations

Author Response

We are very pleasant to hear it.

Reviewer 4 Report

This paper presented the morphology of dome- and tepee-like landforms generated by expansive hydration of weathering anhydrite at Dingwall. Overall this article is interesting and innovative, but it still needs improvement.

1 Please simplify the Abstract section.

2 Please modify the presentation of Figure 1 to make it more readable

3 As for the geology of the study area, please pay more attention to the introduction of strata

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of my research field, I am only able to review some of the content in the article, so I provide few comments.

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Reviewer 5 Report

This is a prospective study on geomorphological processes related to anhydrite deposits using a combination of both remote sensing and standard geological ground-truthing which fit well in the scope of the Special Issue. 

The manuscript is well written with adequate analysis of the obtained data and explanations of expansive anhydrite hydration and its influence on the formation of the surface morphologies of anhydrite deposits.

I think that a slightly modified first paragraph of Figure S1 with the instrumental description should be inserted into the methods section where the UAV are mentioned.

 

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