Architecture of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) - A result of changing external controls

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-54

  Gouw, M J P ^a   Erkens, G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluvial stratigraphy; Rhine Meuse delta; Sea level rise; Subsidence; Time lines; Upstream controls

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; EUSTACY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248324495     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600021302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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