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Temporal and spatial variability of cross-fault groundwater-level differences: the impact of fault-induced permeability reduction, precipitation and evapotranspiration

Lapperre, R.E. (author), Bense, V.F. (author), Kasse, C. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

Faults in the Roer Valley Rift System (Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany) act as barriers to lateral groundwater flow in unconsolidated sedimentary aquifers. This causes a cross-fault groundwater-level step of up to several metres. Using a dataset obtained through 5 years of high-frequency monitoring, the effect of fault-zone permeability,...

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Eemian to Early Weichselian regional and local vegetation development and sedimentary and geomorphological controls, Amersfoort Basin, the Netherlands

Kasse, C. (author), van der Woude, J.D. (author), Woolderink, H.A.G. (author), Schokker, J. (author)

Two new records from the Amersfoort glacial basin are investigated by means of pollen analysis. The cores are situated in the deeper part, close to the original Eemian stratotype Amersfoort 1 (Zagwijn, 1961) and at the margin of the basin. The aim is to reconstruct the Eemian and Early Weichselian vegetation development and to explore the impact...

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Modelling the effects of normal faulting on alluvial river meandering

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

The meandering of alluvial rivers may be forced by normal faulting due to tectonically altered topographic gradients of the river valley and channel at and near the fault zone. Normal faulting can affect river meandering by either instantaneous (e.g. surface-rupturing earthquakes) or gradual displacement. To enhance our under standing of river...

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Late Weichselian and Holocene climatic and local controls on aeolian deposition inferred from decomposing grain size-shape distributions

van Hateren, J.A. (author), Kasse, C. (author), van der Woude, J. (author), Schokker, J. (author), Prins, M.A. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

Aeolian deposits form rich archives of climatic and environmental changes, which have not been fully explored. In this study, results from end-member modelling of grain size-shape distributions were combined with palynological records to reconstruct sedimentary environments and transport mechanisms, and to distinguish climatically-caused from...

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Rapid flood intensification and environmental response of the Lower Meuse during the Allerød-Younger Dryas climate transition

Peng, F. (author), van Balen, R. (author), Beets, C. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Prins, M. (author), van der Putten, N. (author), Troelstra, S. (author), Woolderink, H. (author), van der Woude, J. (author)

Lateglacial climatic oscillations exerted profound impacts on the Meuse fluvial system. In the Lower Meuse (southern Netherlands), geomorphological studies in the last decades mainly centred on Lateglacial vegetation evolution, channel pattern changes and river terrace formation. Little information has been reported about the paleohydrology and...

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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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Middle to Late Pleistocene faulting history of the Heerlerheide fault, Roer Valley Rift System, influenced by glacio-isostasy and mining-induced displacement

van Balen, R.T. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Woolderink, H.A.G. (author)

Faults of the Roer Valley Rift System (RVRS) are characterized by seismicity, scarps and displaced fluvial terraces, showing that they are active. The Heerlerheide fault is part of the southern boundary fault system of the RVRS, the Feldbiss fault zone (FFZ). During the late 19th and first half of the 20th century coal was mined in the...

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Paleoflooding reconstruction from Holocene levee deposits in the Lower Meuse valley, the Netherlands

Peng, F. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Prins, M.A. (author), Ellenkamp, R. (author), Krasnoperov, M.Y. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

This study investigates the Holocene levee deposits and paleoflooding history of the Lower Meuse in the Netherlands based on archeological investigations and sedimentary analyses (grain size, end-member modelling, magnetic susceptibility and thermogravimetric analyses). The levee on the left bank in the study area near Ooijen contains a...

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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...

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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...

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A Late Glacial surface rupturing earthquake at the Peel Boundary fault zone, Roer Valley Rift System, the Netherlands

van Balen, R.T. (author), Bakker, M.A.J. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Woolderink, H.A.G. (author)

Paleoseismological trenching studies constrain recurrence times and magnitudes of faulting events and earthquakes on active faults. In a trench along the central part of the Peel Boundary fault zone (PBFZ), southeastern Netherlands, evidence was found for such a large faulting event that occurred around 14 ka. The event caused a fault scarp in...

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Interplay between climatic, tectonic and anthropogenic forcing in the Lower Rhine Graben, the Roer River

Woolderink, H.A.G. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Grooteman, L.P.A. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author)

The Roer is a small river which drains the Rhenish shield and confluences with the Meuse River. Up to now the geological, climatological, biostratigraphical, and pedological setting of the Roer Valley were not sufficiently integrated to disentangle the effects of external forcing factors on the Roer River. In this study we perform a detailed and...

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Glacial geology of Saalian relief around Midwolda, eastern Groningen, the Netherlands

Kluiving, S.J. (author), Aalbersberg, G. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author), Kasse, C. (author)

Due to canal-digging activities in 2011 and 2014, two small and one large temporary exposure, all ranging from 4 to 5 m in depth, were studied with respect to the sedimentology and structural geology, in the glacial ridge of Midwolda, Groningen, the Netherlands. The lowermost unit consists of clay of Elsterian age and is composed of...

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Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation development and fluvial system changes in the northern Meuse valley, the Netherlands: a review of palynological data

Hoek, W.Z. (author), Lammertsma, E.I. (author), Bohncke, S.J.P. (author), Bos, J.A.A. (author), Bunnik, F.P.M. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Schokker, J. (author), Westerhoff, W.E. (author)

This study provides an overview of existing palynological and chronological data of the northern Meuse valley which have been collected over recent decades. The palynological data were used to make a vegetation reconstruction in time and space for the Lateglacial and early Holocene. The vegetation development is strongly influenced by the rapid...

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Time-integrated 3D approach of late Quaternary sediment-depocenter migration in the Tagus depositional system: From river valley to abyssal plain

Vis, G.J. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Kroon, D. (author), Vandenberghe, J. (author), Jung, S. (author), Lebreiro, S.M. (author), Rodrigues, T. (author)

Quantification of sediment volumes in continental to deep ocean basins is key to understanding processes of sediment distribution in source-to-sink depositional systems. Using our own and published data we present the first quantification of sediment-volume changes in basins along the course of a major southwest European river during the...

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Landscape potential for the adoption of crop cultivation: Role of local soil properties and groundwater table rise during 6000-5400BP in Flevoland (central Netherlands)

van den Biggelaar, D.F.A.M. (author), Kluiving, S.J. (author), Bohncke, S.J.P. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Prins, M.A. (author), Kolen, J. (author)

This paper presents a new perspective for the temporal variation of crop cultivation adoption during the period 6000-5400BP in Flevoland (central Netherlands) based on the spatial evolution of soils and hydrology. To determine the role of soil properties and groundwater level rise in the adoption of crop cultivation in wetlands, mapping of the...

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Comment on 'Causes, consequences and chronology of large-magnitude palaeoflows in Middle and Late Pleistocene river systems of northwest Europe' by Westaway and Bridgland (2010)

Busschers, F.S. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Vandenberghe, J. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Weerts, H.J.T. (author)

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Holocene flooding history of the Lower Tagus Valley (Portugal)

Vis, G.-J. (author), Bohncke, S.J.P. (author), Schneider, H. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Coenraads-Nederveen, S. (author), Zuurbier, K. (author), Rozema, J. (author), TNO Bouw en Ondergrond (author)

The present paper aims to reconstruct the Lower Tagus Valley flooding history for the last ca. 6500 a, to explore the suitability of pollen-based local vegetation development in supporting the reconstruction of flooding history, and to explain fluvial activity changes in terms of allogenic (climate, human impact) and autogenic (system intrinsic)...

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Response of the Rhine-Meuse fluvial system to Saalian ice-sheet dynamics

Busschers, F.S. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Kasse, C. (author), Weerts, H.J.T. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Bunnik, F.P.M. (author), TNO Bouw en Ondergrond (author)

A new reconstruction of the interaction between the Saalian Drente glaciation ice margin and the Rhine-Meuse fluvial system is presented based on a sedimentary analysis of continuous core material, archived data and a section in an ice-pushed ridge. Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) was applied to obtain independent age control on these...

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Late Pleistocene evolution of the Rhine-Meuse system in the southern North Sea basin: Imprints of climate change, sea-level oscillation and glacio-isostacy

Busschers, F.S. (author), Kasse, C. (author), van Balen, R.T. (author), van den Berghe, J. (author), Cohen, K.M. (author), Weerts, H.J.T. (author), Wallinga, J. (author), Johns, C. (author), Cleveringa, P. (author), Bunnik, F.P.M. (author), TNO Bouw en Ondergrond (author)

High-resolution continuous core material, geophysical measurements, and hundreds of archived core descriptions enabled to identify 13 Late Pleistocene Rhine-Meuse sedimentary units in the infill of the southern part of the North Sea basin (the Netherlands, northwestern Europe). This sediment record and a large set of Optical Stimulated...

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