The Pleistocene of Schöningen, Germany: A complex tunnel valley fill revealed from 3D subsurface modelling and shear wave seismics

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-105

  Lang, Jörg ^a   Winsemann, Jutta ^a   Steinmetz, Dominik ^a   Polom, Ulrich ^b   Pollok, Lukas ^a   Böhner, Utz ^c   Serangeli, Jordi ^d   Brandes, Christian ^a   Hampel, Andrea ^a   Winghart, Stefan ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D subsurface modelling (GOCAD ); Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 9); Lacustrine delta; Palaeolithic spears; Sch ningen; Shear wave seismics; Tunnel valley

Indexed keywords

3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL; BOREHOLE LOGS; DEGLACIATIONS; DELTA PLAIN; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; FACIES ARCHITECTURE; FINE-GRAINED SAND; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GERMANY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLSTEINIAN DEPOSITS; HOLSTEINIAN INTERGLACIAL (MIS 9); ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DELTA; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; OUTCROP DATA; PALAEOGENE; PALAEOLITHIC SPEARS; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SHALLOW-WATER;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WELL LOGGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTIFACT; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TUNNEL; VALLEY FILL;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; SCHONINGEN;

ANIMALIA; ULMUS;

EID: 84858379397     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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