River Basin Sediment Systems - Archives of Environmental Change

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-90-5809-342-4
Verlag: A A Balkema Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

An exploration of the relationship between river behaviour and environmental change. The research involves a wide range of disciplines including geomorphology, geophysics, archaeology, palaeoecology, engineering and planning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maddy, D.

Macklin, M.G.

Woodward, J.C.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The context: fluvial archives of environmental change; alluvial systematics. Tectonic forcing: crustal instability and the fluvial record; the mass terrace sequence at Maastricht, SE Netherlands - evidence for 200m of late Neogene and Quaternary surface uplift; flow in the lower continental crust as a mechanism for the Quaternary uplift of the Rhenish Massif, northwest Europe. Climate forcing: records of Pleistocene and Holocene river behaviour. Geoarchaeological perspectives and the human impact. Modelling and monitoring of sediment fluxes and river channel dynamics.

Über Autor(innen)

D. Maddy, M.G. Macklin; J.C. Woodward