Two mid-Holocene millenia of swamp forest in the Rhine/Meuse deltaic plain

Auteur :
VAN DER WOUDE, J. D.

Description :
The paleoenvironmental evolution of a Dutch deltaic swamp forest area during the mid-Holocene was strongly governed by a general rise of water level (bound to postglacial sea-level rise) and by fluctuations in this water-level rise. A phasing of this 2.000 years period shows alternation of closed swamp forest on the one hand, and (fluvio-) lacustrine environment with swamp forest islands on the other. The refined scale of investigation permits bird's-view landscape reconstructions. These also show how attractive the area was for neolithic fishermen.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Boreas. An international journal of Quaternary geology Oslo, 1985, vol. 14, n°. 4, p. 267-272, Références bibliographiques : 8 réf.

Date :
1985