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Natural material selection according to geological patterns in the pleistocene and holocene landscape of the netherlands
Summary The Quaternary sedimentation in The Netherlands is mainly controlled by two factors: a. world-wide climatic fluctuations; b. continuous subsidence with consequent block faulting. The climatic changes caused changes in sea level. As a consequence the transition belt between marine and fluvial sedimentation shifted regularly. These climatic fluctuations also influenced the fluvial regimen and once, during the Saalian glaciation, the country was partly covered by the Scandinavian inland ice. On the other hand a number of observations point to tectonics as an important agent in the evolution of the sedimentary succession in The Netherlands. As a result the landscape is composed of a rather complex system of lithologic patterns. Therefore the geological mapping of these patterns in units can only serve for engineering technical purposes when dealing with the genetic aspects of these units in detail. The surface layers in the Netherlands consist almost exclusively of Quaternary deposits. Only in the eastern part, along the German frontier, and in southern Limburg, there are small areas of outcropping Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks (fig. 1). This paper deals with the Quaternary deposits which mainly are of marine, fluvial and periglacial origin. In the northern part of the country glacial deposits are locally important. Vast Holocene peat deposits are present in the western and northern part of the Netherlands.
Natural material selection according to geological patterns in the pleistocene and holocene landscape of the netherlands
Summary The Quaternary sedimentation in The Netherlands is mainly controlled by two factors: a. world-wide climatic fluctuations; b. continuous subsidence with consequent block faulting. The climatic changes caused changes in sea level. As a consequence the transition belt between marine and fluvial sedimentation shifted regularly. These climatic fluctuations also influenced the fluvial regimen and once, during the Saalian glaciation, the country was partly covered by the Scandinavian inland ice. On the other hand a number of observations point to tectonics as an important agent in the evolution of the sedimentary succession in The Netherlands. As a result the landscape is composed of a rather complex system of lithologic patterns. Therefore the geological mapping of these patterns in units can only serve for engineering technical purposes when dealing with the genetic aspects of these units in detail. The surface layers in the Netherlands consist almost exclusively of Quaternary deposits. Only in the eastern part, along the German frontier, and in southern Limburg, there are small areas of outcropping Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks (fig. 1). This paper deals with the Quaternary deposits which mainly are of marine, fluvial and periglacial origin. In the northern part of the country glacial deposits are locally important. Vast Holocene peat deposits are present in the western and northern part of the Netherlands.
Natural material selection according to geological patterns in the pleistocene and holocene landscape of the netherlands
Bisschops, J. H. (author)
1974
Article (Journal)
English
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