Radiocarbon-dated sediment sequences from the Belgian coastal plain: Testing the hypothesis of fluctuating or smooth late-Holocene relative sea-level rise

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1219-1228

  Baeteman, Cecile ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgian coastal plain; Facies changes; Late Holocene.; Northwest European coastal lowlands; Peat and sediment compaction; Relative sea level rise; Sedimentary processes; Tidal back barrier deposits

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL PLAIN; FACIES; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67749101922     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608096597     Document Type: Article

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