Fluvial terrace formation in the northern Upper Rhine Graben during the last 20 000 years as a result of allogenic controls and autogenic evolution

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 476-495

  Erkens, Gilles ^a   Dambeck, Rainer ^b   Volleberg, Koen P ^a   Bouman, Marjolein T I J ^a   Bos, Johanna A A ^c   Cohen, Kim M ^a   Wallinga, Jakob ^d   Hoek, Wim Z ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

External forcing; Fluvial geomorphology; Glacial interglacial transition; Holocene; Intrinsic response; Terrace formation

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RIVER TERRACE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 56249102735     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.021     Document Type: Article

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