Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeogeography of the Lower Tagus Valley (Portugal): effects of relative sea level, valley morphology and sediment supply

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 1682-1709

  Vis, Geert Jan ^a   Kasse, Cornelis ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL;

BACKPROPAGATION;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE SHEET; INFILL; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBSIDENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS VALLEY;

EID: 51249093022     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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