Climate-driven fluvial development and valley abandonment at the last glacial-interglacial transition (Oude IJssel-Rhine, Germany)

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 37-62

  Janssens, M M ^a   Kasse, C ^a   Bohncke, S J P ^a   Greaves, H ^b   Cohen, K M ^b,c   Wallinga, J ^d   Hoek, W Z ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Applied Geology and Geophysics   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex response; Fluvial geomorphology; Lateglacial lower rhine; River pattern change; Vegetation development

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MEANDER; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; VALLEY; WEICHSELIAN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

LOWER RHINE BASIN; RHINE BASIN;

EID: 84867515930     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s001677460000055x     Document Type: Article

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