Thank you for taking the time to review our manuscript. We appreciate your thorough examination of our work and your feedback. We have thoroughly searched the literature and consulted with experts who have studied periglacial processes in the Arctic for decades and we can find no previously published studies on this landform. We would greatly appreciate any references you could provide. For additional review into glacial landforms, please see Hibbard et al. (2021) at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107947. Similar features are detailed in Tables 1 (our manuscript) and 2 (Hibbard et al., 2021). In our manuscript, we discuss VRFs at Mokka Fjord as potentially lithalsa-type frost mounds or ring-ridge moraines/kettled terraces. Our interpretation is based on field observations, geological context, and literature review. While a conclusive mechanism may require further study, we present our preferred formation mechanism.

Thank you for your thoughtful comments and suggestions. We appreciate your recognition of our data collection, as well as your constructive feedback on areas where our manuscript can be improved.

We agree with your suggestion to provide a more in-depth discussion of the possible formation mechanisms. We plan to include a schematic step-by-step drawing and description of our proposed formation suggestions. This will cover the possible origins of buried ice, which is key to understanding the formation mechanisms. We will also discuss the timing of terrace formation and the transport of glacifluvial material, and how these relate, in time and space, to the possible buried ice.

Regarding your comment on Line 34, we hypothesize that these features are the product of topographic inversion following the disintegration of buried massive ice rather than interstitial ice. We will provide a figure demonstrating this process.

To the best of our knowledge, we are not aware of any previously published articles referencing VRF-like features (except Hibbard et al., 2021 where we first observed these features on Devon Island). However, many VRF-like features are found across the northern hemisphere which we reference in Table 1 and throughout the discussion section. Many of these features’ origins are debated (and there is an ongoing topic on differentiating glacial and periglacial ice and landforms in the permafrost and glacial communities) and we will be sure to make the ongoing debate/discussion clearer.  

Regarding your comment on Line 330, we can certainly elaborate on the discussion on the glacial history and presence/absence of buried glacial ice in the area and provide additional references.

Correct, we did not observe grain sorting. However, we did not do a grain size analysis to confirm this at this location (we did a grain size analysis on Devon Island VRFs and did not observe grain sorting there either, described in Hibbard et al., 2021). We continue our study with the assumption that grain sorting is not present across the entire deposit.

We will carefully review the references given in Section 5.2 (Glacial Origins) and ensure that each formation hypothesis is correctly associated with its respective reference.

We appreciate your time and effort in reviewing our work and look forward to the possibility of providing revisions based on your feedback. Thank you!