Development of a mid-Holocene estuarine basin, Rhine-Meuse mouth area, offshore The Netherlands

Marine Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 198-211

  Hijma, M P ^a,b,c,e   van der Spek, A J F ^c,d   van Heteren, S ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Utrecht Centre of Geosciences   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

back barrier; barrier overstepping; estuary; sea level rise; seismic data; tidal prism; transgression

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTUARINE DEPOSITS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; IN-BETWEEN; LATERAL MIGRATION; MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEISMIC DATAS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STUDY AREAS; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL PRISM;

DEPOSITS; PRISMS; RIVERS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY;

ESTUARIES;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; DEPOSITION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL CHANNEL; TRANSGRESSION;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA;

EID: 77950370241     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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