Contribution of peat compaction to relative sea-level rise within Holocene deltas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Van Asselen, S ^a   Karssenberg, D ^a   Stouthamer, E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPACTION; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER; COMPACTION MODELS; DATA SETS; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; FLOOD BASINS; FLOOD RISKS; HOLOCENES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

PEAT;

CALIBRATION; COMPACTION; DATA SET; DELTA; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; FLOODING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOSTASY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PEAT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUBSIDENCE; VULNERABILITY; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84055188720     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049835     Document Type: Article

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