Allogenic forcing of the late Quaternary Rhine-Meuse fluvial record: The interplay of sea-level change, climate change and crustal movements

Basin Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 535-547

  Wallinga, Jakob ^a,b   Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^c   Busschers, Freek S ^d,e   Weerts, Henk J T ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11044233904     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2003.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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