This first volume in the Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research series deals with the acquisition and archiving of lake sediment cores, chronological techniques, and large-scale basin analysis methods used in paleolimnology. Other volumes deal with physical and geochemical parameters and me
River basin sediment systems: archives of environmental change
โ Scribed by D Maddy; Mark G Macklin; Jamie C Woodward; Fluvial Archives Group
- Publisher
- Balkema
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 504
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: Fluvial archives of environmental change / D. Maddy, M.G. Macklin, J.C. Woodward --
Alluvial systematics / J. Lewin --
Tectonic forcing: crustal instability and the fluvial record --
The Maas terrace sequence at Maastricht, SE Netherlands: evidence for 200 m of late Neogene and Quaternary surface uplift / M.W. van den Berg, Ton van Hoof --
Flow in the lower continental crust as a mechanism for the Quaternary uplift of the Rhenish Massif, north-west Europe / R. Westaway --
Climate forcing: records of pleistocene and holocene river behaviour --
Early Pleistocene fluvial and estuarine records of climate change in the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium / C. Kasse, S. Bohncke --
Fluvial responses to external forcing: examples from the French Massif Central, the Texas Coastal Plain (USA), the Sahara of Tunisia, and the Lower Mississippi Valley (USA) / M. D. Blum, E. C. Straffin --
River terrace formation in synchrony with long-term climatic fluctuation: supporting mammalian evidence from southern Britain / D.R. Bridgland, D.C. Schreve --
Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change indicated by floodplain deposits of the Hessian Depression (Central Germany) / P. Houben, S. Nolte, H. Rittweger, J. Wunderlich --
Lateglacial and Holocene palaeohydrology of the lower Vychegda river, western Russia / A. Sidorchuk, O. Borisova, N. Kovalyukh, A. Panin --
A 300-year history of flooding in an Andean mountain river system: the Rio Alizos, southern Bolivia / G.S. Maas, M.G. Macklin, J. Warburton, J.C. Woodward, E. Meldrum.
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