Modeling the response of the Rhine-Meuse fluvial system to Late Pleistocene climate change

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-452

  van Balen, Ronald T ^a   Busschers, Freek S ^a,b   Tucker, Gregory E ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Late Pleistocene; Meuse; Modelling; Rhine; Terraces

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRAIN SIZE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; LORRAINE; MEUSE; RHINE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70549084945     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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