Late Pleistocene evolution of the Rhine-Meuse system in the southern North Sea basin: imprints of climate change, sea-level oscillation and glacio-isostacy

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3216-3248

  Busschers, F S ^a,b   Kasse, C ^a   van Balen, R T ^a   Vandenberghe, J ^a   Cohen, K M ^c   Weerts, H J T ^b   Wallinga, J ^d   Johns, C ^d   Cleveringa, P ^e   Bunnik, F P M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e WMC Kwartair Consultants ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; LUMINESCENCE;

GLACIO ISOSTACY; PLEISTOCENE EVOLUTION; SEA LEVEL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA BASINS;

SEDIMENTATION;

AGGRADATION; AVULSION; BASIN EVOLUTION; BEDLOAD; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COOLING; DRAINAGE BASIN; GLACIOEUSTACY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; LATE GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SAALIAN; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 36849092372     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.013     Document Type: Article

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