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Last Interglacial sea-level data points from Northwest Europe

Cohen, K.M. (author), Cartelle, V. (author), Barnett, R. (author), Busschers, F.S. (author), Barlow, N.L.M. (author)

Abundant numbers of sites and studies exist in NW Europe that document the geographically and geomorphologically diverse coastal record from the Last Interglacial (Eemian, Ipswichian, Marine Isotope Stage 5e). This paper summarises a database of 146 known Last Interglacial sea-level data points from in and around the North Sea (35 entries in the...

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Patterns in river channel sinuosity of the Meuse Roer and Rhine rivers in the Lower Rhine Embayment rift-system are they tectonically forced?

Woolderink, H.A.G. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Kleinhans, M.G. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

The tectonic and fluvial setting of the Rhine-Meuse river system in the Lower Rhine Embayment rift system is exceptionally well known. The 19th century, pre-regulation river courses of three rivers are used to study a postulated sinuosity response to faulting. The fault-perpendicular Meuse River shows patterns of sinuosity changes at different...

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Sedimentary architecture and landforms of the late Saalian (MIS 6) ice sheet margin offshore of the Netherlands

Cartelle, V. (author), Barlow, N.L.M. (author), Hodgson, D.M. (author), Busschers, F.S. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Meijninger, B.M.L. (author), van Kesteren, W.P. (author)

Reconstructing the growth and decay of palaeo-ice sheets is critical to understanding the relationships between global climate and sea-level change and to testing numerical ice sheet models. In this study, we integrate recently acquired high-resolution 2D seismic reflection and borehole datasets from two wind-farm sites offshore of the...

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An improved method for paleoflood reconstruction and flooding phase identification, applied to the Meuse River in the Netherlands

Peng, F. (author), Prins, M.A. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), van der Putten, N. (author), van der Lubbe, J. (author), Toonen, W.H.J. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

This study investigates Holocene floodplain evolution and flooding phases as experienced in the Lower Meuse catchment, primarily based on grain-size distributions of channel-fill and floodplain deposits in sediment cores. The presence of post-depositional Fe[sbnd]Mn concretions and resistant organic particulate materials impedes the direct use...

article 2019

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Spatial and temporal variations in river terrace formation, preservation, and morphology in the Lower Meuse Valley, the Netherlands

Woolderink, H.A.G. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Hoek, W.Z. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

The Lower Meuse Valley crosses the Roer Valley Rift System and provides an outstanding example of well-preserved late glacial and Holocene river terraces. The formation, preservation, and morphology of these terraces vary due to reach-specific conditions, a phenomenon that has been underappreciated in past studies. A detailed palaeogeographic...

conference paper 2019

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Using 14C-dated peat beds for reconstructing subsidence by compression in the holland coastal plain of the Netherlands

Koster, K. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Stafleu, J. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author)

Koster, K.; Cohen, K.M.; Stafleu, J., and Stouthamer, E., 2018. Using 14C-dated peat beds for reconstructing subsidence by compression in the Holland coastal plain of the Netherlands. Subsidence in the Holland coastal plain of the Netherlands was reconstructed from the vertical displacement of Holocene peat layers below their reference...

article 2018

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Human-caused avulsion in the Rhine-Meuse delta before historic embankment (The Netherlands)

Pierik, H.J. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author), Schuring, T. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author)

Although the shifting of deltaic river branches (avulsion) is a natural process that has become increasingly influenced by humans, the impact of early human activities as a driver of avulsion success has remained poorly explored. This study demonstrates how two important avulsions in the downstream part of the Rhine-Meuse delta, The Netherlands,...

article 2018

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Three-dimensional distribution of organic matter in coastal-deltaic peat: Implications for subsidence and carbon dioxide emissions by human-induced peat oxidation

Koster, K. (author), Stafleu, J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author), Busschers, F.S. (author), Middelkoop, H. (author)

Human-induced groundwater level lowering in the Holocene coastal-deltaic plain of the Netherlands causes oxidation of peat organic matter, resulting in land subsidence and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Here, a three-dimensional (3D) analysis of the distribution of the remaining peat organic matter is presented, to quantify the potential of...

article 2018

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Sea-level change in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Vermeersen, B.L.A. (author), Slangen, A.B.A. (author), Gerkema, T. (author), Baart, F. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Dangendorf, S. (author), Duran-Matute, M. (author), Frederikse, T. (author), Grinsted, A. (author), Hijma, M.P. (author), Jevrejeva, S. (author), Kiden, P. (author), Kleinherenbrink, M. (author), Meijles, E.W. (author), Palmer, M.D. (author), Rietbroek, R. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Schulz, E. (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author), Simpson, M.J.R. (author), Sterlini, P. (author), Stocchi, P. (author), van de Wal, R.S.W. (author), van der Wegen, M. (author)

Rising sea levels due to climate change can have severe consequences for coastal populations and ecosystems all around the world. Understanding and projecting sea-level rise is especially important for low-lying countries such as the Netherlands. It is of specific interest for vulnerable ecological and morphodynamic regions, such as the Wadden...

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Mapping buried holocene landscapes. Past lowland environments, palaeoDEMs and preservation in GIS

Cohen, K.M. (author), Dambrink, R.M. (author), de Bruijn, R. (author), Marges, V.C. (author), Erkens, G. (author), Pierik, H.J. (author), Koster, K. (author), Stafleu, J. (author), Schokker, J. (author), Hijma, M.P. (author)

In a geological GIS-data recombination project, a digital map was produced that contains information on the Netherlands’ former coastal and delta plain landscapes over the last 14,000 years: the Holocene and the very end of the Pleistocene. The polygon map product is accompanied by a set of palaeoDEMs (Digital Elevation Models) indicating the...

article 2017

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Natural levee evolution in the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands, during the first millennium CE

Pierik, H.J. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author)

This paper presents reconstructions on natural levee development in the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands, during the first millennium CE, covering the full delta plain. It is the first study that performs this on a delta scale, which allows seeing the delta-wide trends on levee-forming controls and their feedbacks. We mapped the levee...

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The Usumacinta-Grijalva beach-ridge plain in southern Mexico: A high-resolution archive of river discharge and precipitation

Nooren, K. (author), Hoek, W. (author), Winkels, T. (author), Huizinga, A. (author), van der Plicht, H. (author), van Dam, R.L. (author), van Heteren, S. (author), van Bergen, M.J. (author), Prins, M.A. (author), Reimann, T. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Minderhoud, P. (author), Middelkoop, H. (author)

The beach-ridge sequence of the Usumacinta-Grijalva delta borders a 300 km long section of the southern Gulf of Mexico coast. With around 500 beach ridges formed in the last 6500 years, the sequence is unsurpassed in the world in terms of numbers of individual ridges preserved, continuity of the record, and temporal resolution. We mapped and...

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The impact of avulsion on groundwater level and peat formation in delta floodbasins during the middle-Holocene transgression in the Rhine-Meuse delta, The Netherlands

van Asselen, S. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author)

By redistributing water and sediment in delta plains, avulsions of river branches have major environmental impacts, notably in changing hydrological and peat-forming conditions in floodbasins. The central part of the Rhine-Meuse delta, with its extensive databases including detailed lithological data and high-resolution age control, offers a...

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A new GIS approach for reconstructing and mapping dynamic late Holocene coastal plain palaeogeography

Pierik, H.J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Stouthamer, E. (author)

The geomorphological development of Holocene coastal plains around the world has been studied since the beginning of the twentieth century from various disciplines, resulting in large amounts of data. However, the overwhelming quantities and heterogeneous nature of this data have caused the divided knowledge to remain inconsistent and fragmented...

article 2016

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Improving age-depth models of fluvio-lacustrine deposits using sedimentary proxies for accumulation rates

Minderhoud, P.S.J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Toonen, W.H.J. (author), Erkens, G. (author), Hoek, W.Z. (author)

Lacustrine fills, including those of oxbow lakes in river floodplains, often hold valuable sedimentary and biological proxy records of palaeo-environmental change. Precise dating of accumulated sediments at levels throughout these records is crucial for interpretation and correlation of (proxy) data existing within the fills. Typically, dates...

article 2016

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Preservation of meandering river channels in uniformly aggrading channel belts

van de Lageweg, W.I. (author), Schuurman, F. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), van Dijk, W.M. (author), Shimizu, Y. (author), Kleinhans, M.G. (author)

Channel belt deposits from meandering river systems commonly display an internal architecture of stacked depositional features with scoured basal contacts due to channel and bedform migration across a range of scales. Recognition and correct interpretation of these bounding surfaces is essential to reconstruction of palaeochannel dimensions and...

article 2016

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Generic 3D interpolation of Holocene base-level rise and provision of accommodation space, developed for the Netherlands coastal plain and infilled palaeovalleys

Koster, K. (author), Stafleu, J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author)

We present an interpolation model that describes Holocene groundwater level rise and the creation of accommodation space in 3D in the Rhine-Meuse delta – the Netherlands. The model area (ca. 12 400 km2) covers two palaeovalleys of Late Pleistocene age (each 30 km wide) and the overlying Holocene deposits of the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Holland...

article 2016

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The Blake Event recorded near the Eemian type locality - A diachronic onset of the Eemian in Europe

Sier, M.J. (author), Peeters, J. (author), Dekkers, M.J. (author), Parés, J.M. (author), Chang, L. (author), Busschers, F.S. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Bunnik, F.P.M. (author), Roebroeks, W. (author)

Multidisciplinary analysis including paleomagnetic, sedimentologic, sea-level change, luminescence dating and palynologic research was performed on a 25m long orientated core taken at Rutten, close to Eemian key localities in the Netherlands. The main goal of our research was to test a possible delayed onset of temperate conditions in this...

article 2015

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Paleogeography

Vis, G.J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Westerhof, W.E. (author), ten Veen, J.H. (author), Hijma, M.P. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Vos, P.C. (author)

bookPart 2015

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A staged geogenetic approach to underwater archaeological prospection in the Port of Rotterdam (Yangtzehaven, Maasvlakte, The Netherlands): A geological and palaeoenvironmental case study for local mapping of Mesolithic lowland landscapes

Vos, P.C. (author), Bunnik, F.P.M. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Cremer, H. (author)

This study presents the geogenetic approach to detect presently drowned archaeological sites in the transgressive palaeoenvironment of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta. A staged and practical approach is advocated in which subsurface archaeological predictions are based on geological mapping and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the underwater...

article 2015