scholarly journals Diversity patterns in microfloras recovered from Miocene brown coals of the lower Rhine Basin reveal distinct coupling of the structure of the peat‐forming vegetation and continental climate variability

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Utescher ◽  
Abdul R. Ashraf ◽  
Andrea K. Kern ◽  
Volker Mosbrugger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Diversity Patterns ◽  
Rhine Basin ◽  
Brown Coals ◽  
Lower Rhine Basin ◽  
Continental Climate ◽  
Lower Rhine

Anatomy of a channel-bank collapse structure in Tertiary fluvio-lacustrine sediments of the Lower Rhine Basin, Germany

1990 ◽  
Vol 127 (5) ◽  
pp. 445-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Williams ◽  
S. Flint
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Lacustrine Sediments ◽  
General Application ◽  
Rhine Basin ◽  
Deformation Feature ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Failure Event ◽  
Lower Rhine Basin ◽  
Bank Collapse ◽  
Lower Rhine

AbstractAn exceptionally well-preserved synsedimentary deformation feature is described from uppermost Miocene fluvio-lacustrine coastal plain sediments, exposed in lignite mines of the Lower Rhine Basin, Germany. The feature is interpreted as a complex, multi-stage channel-bank collapse structure. Rotational slumping of bank material into the channel along two failure surfaces extending below the channel toe generated a series ofminor compressional ‘thrust/backthrust’ structures within the muddy channel-fill sediments. A reconstruction of the failure event is proposed which is linked toa lowering of river stage and subsequent channel abandonment. The accurate description of this unusually well-preserved channel-bank collapse structure may have general application in the interpretation of similar, but less-well-exposed-preserved phenomena elsewhere.

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