Sedimentary architecture and optical dating of Middle and Late Pleistocene Rhine-Meuse deposits - Fluvial response to climate change, sea-level fluctuation and glaciation

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-41

  Busschers, Freek S ^a   Weerts, H J T ^b   Wallinga, J ^c   Cleveringa, P ^b   Kasse, C ^a   de Wolf, H ^b   Cohen, K M ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate; Estuarine; Fluvial; Glaciation; Isostacy; Late Pleistocene; Middle Pleistocene; Netherlands; North Sea Basin; Optical dating; Rhine Meuse; Sea level; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

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

EID: 18844373037     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600022885     Document Type: Review

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