River terraces of the Vltava and Labe (Elbe) system, Czech Republic, and their implications for the uplift history of the Bohemian Massif

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-124

  Tyráček, Jaroslav ^a   Westaway, Rob ^b   Bridgland, David ^c  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b University of Durham ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial deposits; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Quaternary; Vltava

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ELBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 4143099136     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(04)80022-1     Document Type: Article

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