Trends and controls of Holocene floodplain sedimentation in the Rhine catchment

Catena

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-106

  Hoffmann, Thomas ^a   Erkens, Gilles ^b   Gerlach, Renate ^c   Klostermann, Josef ^d   Lang, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^d Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein Westfalen   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment size; Climate impact; Floodplain sedimentation rate; Holocene; Human impact; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER;

EID: 61849156377     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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