Abstract
The quantification of geohazards and water resources in intraplate areas requires an integrated approach connecting monitoring, reconstruction and prediction of underlying processes. Intraplate rifts such as the Northwestern European rift system and coastal areas such as the Rhine - Meuse delta system are characterized by an interplay of climatic variations and neotectonics. The Netherlands Environmental Earth System Dynamics Initiative (NEESDI) addresses the interplay of lithosphere and surface processes through an integration of upper mantle and crustal scale studies with high-resolution analyses of the sedimentary record, geomorphology and hydrodynamic regime. Recent faulting imaged by seismic reflection data and trenching appears to exert a major control on uplift and subsidence patterns in the area, effecting coastal evolution and river dynamics in the Rhine - Meuse system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-21 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Global and Planetary Change |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2000 |
Funding
NEESDI is funded through the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). We would like to thank Raymond Schorno and Dick van de Kroef for efficient and dedicated project management. The international monitoring advisory group under the chairmanship of Peter Ziegler provided crucial and valuable constructive criticism. We thank the International Lithosphere Program (ILP), and the Netherlands Institute of Applied Geosciences TNO for fruitful cooperation. NEESDI is carried out by a consortium of the Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology (NSG), the Vening Meinesz School of Geodynamics (VMSG), the Interuniversity Centre for Geo-ecological Research (ICG), the School for Atmospheric Sciences (SAMO) and the Delft Centre for Technical Geosciences (CTG). Comments on this paper by Paul Andriessen and Ronald Van Balen are appreciated. Margot Saher and Herman Engelen are acknowledged for editorial assistance and desk editing. We thank all the reviewers for their critical and constructive comments on the papers in this volume.
Keywords
- Coastal evolution
- Environmental Earth System Dynamics
- Geohazards
- Geomorphology
- NEESDI
- Neotectonics
- River dynamics
- Sediment transport