Complex fluvial response to Lateglacial and Holocene allogenic forcing in the Lower Rhine Valley (Germany)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 611-627

  Erkens, G ^a   Hoffmann, T ^b   Gerlach, R ^c   Klostermann, J ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^d Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein Westfalen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cross sections; Fluvial response; Human impact; Incision; Lower valley; Terraces

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONS; FLUVIAL RESPONSE; HUMAN IMPACT; INCISION; LOWER VALLEY; TERRACES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREHOLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROSS SECTION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; SUSPENDED LOAD; TERRACE; VALLEY; WEICHSELIAN;

RHINE VALLEY;

EID: 79952043018     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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