Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape
Subtitle: long-term landscape evolution of the Netherlands during the Holocene, described and visualized in national, regional and local palaeogeographical map series
By: Peter Vos
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Eelde, The Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9789491431821
Subjects: Stratigraphic Geology; Paleogeography; Historical geology
Description: The topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape during the Holocene. The landscape evolution is vizualized in series of palaeogeographical maps and the driving mechanisms behind the environmental changes are discussed. The practice to make palaeogeographical map reconstructions in the Netherlands developed after the Second World War when a lot of regional geological and soil scientific mapping programs were carried out by government institutions and universities. These maps show when and how the surveyed sediments were formed. The palaeogeographical map reconstructions are subsequently used for the understanding and modelling of the long-term coastal evolution, coastal-management issues, landscape-archaeological purposes and for education and public information reasons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.