Influence of organics and clastic lake fills on distributary channel processes in the distal Rhine-Meuse delta (The Netherlands)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 355-374

  Bos, Ingwer J ^a,b   Feiken, Hendrik ^a   Bunnik, Frans ^b   Schokker, Jeroen ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Channel planform; Delta deposits; Delta plain; Holocene; Lake deposits; Natural levee thickness

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DATING METHOD; DELTA; DRAINAGE BASIN; FILL; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEVEE; MEANDER; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; TIDAL FLAT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350440699     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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