Reconstructing North Sea palaeolandscapes from 3D and high-density 2D seismic data: An overview

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 31-42

  Van Heteren, S ^a   Meekes, J A C ^a   Bakker, M A J ^a   Gaffney, V ^b   Fitch, S ^b   Gearey, B R ^c   Paap, B F ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b TNO Sustainable Geo Energy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Geoarchaeology; Quaternary; Sea level change; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LANDSCAPE; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84906048288     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/njg.2014.4     Document Type: Review

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