Longitudinal profile evolution of the Rhine-Meuse system during the last déglaciation: Interplay of climate change and glacioeustasy?

Terra Nova

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-15

  Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EUSTACY; GLACIOEUSTACY; LAST DEGLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0344197572     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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