Recent staff publications

Recent important publications by members, or former members, of the Delta Evolution Program are listed here. These are mainly papers published in international journals, although some other relevant publications for Delta Evolution are also included.

  1. Asselman, N.E.M., Middelkoop, H., & Dijk, P.M. van (2003). The impact of climate change on soil erosion, transport and deposition of suspended sediment in the river Rhine. Hydrological Processes, 17, p. 3225-3244.
  2. Berendsen, H.J.A. & E. Stouthamer (2000), Late Weichselian and Holocene palaeogeography of the Rhine-Meuse delta, The Netherlands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 161 (3/4), p. 311-335.
  3. Berendsen, H.J.A. & E. Stouthamer (2001), Palaeogeographic development of the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands. Assen: Koninklijke Van Gorcum.
  4. Berendsen, H.J.A., & E. Stouthamer (2002), Palaeogeographic evolution and avulsion history of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences / Geologie en Mijnbouw 81 (1), p. 97-112.
  5. Berendsen, H.J.A., E.L.J.H. Faessen, A.W. Hesselink & H. Kempen (2002), Zand in banen - Zanddiepte-kaarten van het Gelders Riverengebied met inbegrip van de uiterwaarden. Sand-depth maps of the eastern part of the Rhine-Meuse delta (with a summary in English). Arnhem: Provincie Gelderland, in samenwerking met Rijkswaterstaat, Waterbedrijf Gelderland en Universiteit Utrecht, 53 p. Coloured maps.
  6. Berendsen, H.J.A. (2004), Rivers and the sea: how science went wrong explaining the formation of the Netherlands' coastal plain. In: Dietz, T., P. Hoekstra & F. Thissen eds. The Netherlands and the North Sea. Dutch geography 2000-2004. KNAG: Netherlands Geographical Studies 325, p. 56-63.
  7. Berg, J.H. van den, Gelder, A. van, & Mastbergen, D.R. (2002). The importance of breaching as a mechanism of subaqueous slope failure in fine sand Sedimentology, 49(Issue 1), p. 81-95.
  8. Biserni, G. & H.J.A. Berendsen (2005), The Ombrone alluvial plain (South Tuscany, Italy) during the Holocene: an example of floodplain development without avulsion. Geomorphology.
  9. Blum, M.D. and Törnqvist, T.E., 2000. Fluvial responses to climate and sea-level change: a review and look forward. Sedimentology, 47 (Supplement 1), p. 2-48.
  10. Bos, J.A.A., D.J. Huisman, P. Kiden, W.Z. Hoek, B. van Geel (2005), Early Holocene environmental change in the Kreekrak area (Zeeland, SW-Netherlands): A multi-proxy analysis. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology Vol 227 (4), p. 259-289.
  11. Burrough, P.A. (2002). GIS and Geostatistics: essential partners for spatial analysis. In Wenzhong Shi, M.F. Goodchild & P. Fisher (Eds.), Spatial data quality (p. 18-34). Taylor and Francis.
  12. Busschers, F.S., H.J.T. Weerts, J. Wallinga, C. Kasse, P. Cleveringa, H. de Wolf & K.M. Cohen (2005), Sedimentary architecture and optical dating of Middle and Late Pleistocene Rhine-Meuse deposits - fluvial response to climate change, sea-level fluctuation and glaciation. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84-1, p. 25-41.
  13. Cohen, K.M., H.J.A. Berendsen, & E. Stouthamer (2002). Fluvial deposits as a record for neotectonic activity in the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands Netherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw, 81(3-4), p. 389-405.
  14. Cohen, K.M. (2005), 3D Geostatistical interpolation and geological interpretation of paleo-groundwater rise in the Holocene coastal prism in the Netherlands. In: Giosan, L. & J.P. Bhattacharya (Eds.), River Deltas - Concepts, models, and examples. SEPM Special Publication 83, p. 341-364.
  15. Cohen, K.M., M.J.P. Gouw, J.P. Holten, (2005), Fluvio-deltaic floodbasin deposits recording differential subsidence within a coastal prism (central Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands). In: M.D. Blum, S.B. Marriott & S.F. Leclair, Eds. (2005), Fluvial Sedimentology VII. Special Publication 35, International Association of Sedimentologists. Blackwell Scientific, p. 295-320.
  16. Hesselink, A.W., H.J.T. Weerts, & H.J.A. Berendsen (2003), Alluvial architecture of the human-influenced river Rhine, The Netherlands. Sedimentary Geology, 161 (Issue 3-4), 229-248.
  17. Hesselink, A.W., G.S. Stelling, J.C.J. Kwadijk & H. Middelkoop (2003), Inundation of a Dutch river polder, sensitivity analysis of a physically based inundation model using historic data. Water Resources Research, 39(9), p. 1234-1234.
  18. Heuvelink, G.B.M., & Burrough, P.A. (2002). Developments in statistical approaches to spatial uncertainty and its propagation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 16(2), p. 111-113.
  19. Hoek, W.Z. & S.J.P. Bohncke (2002), Climatic and environmental events over the Last Termination, as recorded in The Netherlands: a review. Geologie en Mijnbouw / Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 81, p. 123-137.
  20. Jong, K. de, Karssenberg, D.J., Sluiter, R, & Burrough, P.A. (2001), The PCraster software and course materials for teaching numerical modelling in the environmental sciences Transactions in GIS 5 (2), p. 99-110.
  21. Karssenberg, D., Tornqvist, T.E. & Bridge, J.S. (2001), Conditioning a process-based model of sedimentary architecture to well data: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 868-879.
  22. Karssenberg, D., (2002), The value of environmental modelling languages for building distributed hydrological models: Hydrological Processes, v. 16, p. 2751-2766.
  23. Kasse, C., W.Z. Hoek, S.J.P. Bohncke, M. Konert, J.W.H. Weijers, R.M. van der Zee and M. Cassee (2005), Late Glacial fluvial response of the Niers-Rhine (western Germany) to climate and vegetation change. Journal of Quaternary Science 20 (4), p. 377-394.
  24. Kiden, P. & Törnqvist, T.E., 1998. Can river terrace flights be used to quantify Quaternary tectonic uplift rates? Journal of Quaternary Science, 13, p. 573-574.
  25. Kleinhans, M.G., Wilbers, A.W.E., Swaaf, A. de, & Berg, J.H. van den (2002). Sediment supply-limited bedforms in sand--gravel bed rivers. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72(5), p. 629-640.
  26. Koster, E.A. (2005). Recent advances in luminescence dating of late pleistocene (cold-climate) aeolian sand and loess deposits in Western Europe. Permafrost and periglacial processes, 16, p. 131-143.
  27. Makaske, B., D.G. Smith & H.J.A. Berendsen (2002), Avulsions, channel evolution and floodplain sedimentation rates of the anastomosing upper Columbia River (British Columbia, Canada). Sedimentology 49, p. 1049-1071.
  28. Mastbergen, D.R., & Berg, J.H. van den (2003). Breaching in fine sands and the generation of sustained turbidity currents in submarine canyons. Sedimentology, 50, p. 625-637.
  29. Mendez, Gonzalo, Marta Perez-Arlucea, Esther Stouthamer & Henk Berendsen (2003), The TESS-1 suction corer: a new device to extract wet, uncompacted sediments. Journal of Sedimentary Research. Journal of Sedimentary Research. Volume 73 (6), p. 1078-1081.
  30. Middelkoop, H., Daamen, K., Gellens, D., Grabs, W., Kwadijk, J.C.J., Lang, H., Parmet, B.W.A.H., Schadler, B., Schulla, J., & Wilke, K. (2001). Impact of climate change on hydrological regimes and water resources management in the Rhine basin Climatic change, 49 (1), p. 105-128.
  31. Middelkoop, H. (2002). Reconstructing floodplain sedimentation rates from heavy metal profiles by inverse modelling. Hydrological Processes, 16, p. 47-64.
  32. Middelkoop, H., Kwadijk, J.C.J., Deursen, W.P.A. van, & Asselt, M.B.A. van (2002). Scenario analyses in global change assessment for water management in the lower Rhine delta. In M. Beniston (Ed.), Climatic change: implications for the hydrological cycle and for water management. Advances in global change research, p. 445-463. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  33. Middelkoop, H., Asselt, M.B.A. van, Klooster, S.A. van 't, Deursen, W.P.A. van, Kwadijk, J.C.J., & Buiteveld, H. (2004). Perspectives on Flood Management in the Rhine and Meuse Rivers. River Research and Applications, 20, p. 327-342.
  34. Perk, M. van der, Burrough, P.A., Gillett, A.G., & Meer, M.B. van der (2001). A GIS-based environmental decision support system to assess the transfer of long-lived radiocaesium through food chains in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl accident. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15, p. 43-64.
  35. Schokker, J., H.J.T. Weerts, W.E. Westerhoff, H.J.A. Berendsen & C. Den Otter (2006), Introduction of the Boxtel Formation and implications for the Quaternary lithostratigraphy of the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences / Geologie en Mijnbouw, in press.
  36. Schokker, J., & Koster, E.A. (2004). Sedimentology and facies distribution of Pleistocene cold-climate aeolian and fluvial deposits in the Roer Valley Graben (Southeastern Netherlands). Permafrost and periglacial processes, 15, p. 1-20.
  37. Stouthamer, E. & H.J.A. Berendsen (2000), Factors controlling the Holocene avulsion history of the Rhine-Meuse delta (The Netherlands). Journal of Sedimentary Research 70 (5), p. 1051-1064.
  38. Stouthamer, E. & H.J.A. Berendsen (2001), Avulsion frequency, avulsion duration, and interavulsion period of Holocene channel belts in the Rhine-Meuse delta (The Netherlands). Journal of Sedimentary Research, Vol. 71, No. 4, p. 589-598.
  39. Törnqvist, T.E., Kidder, T.R., Autin, W.J., Van der Borg, K., De Jong, A.F.M., Klerks, C.J.W., Snijders, E.M.A., Storms, J.E.A.,Van Dam, R.L. & Wiemann, M.C., 1996. A revised chronology for Mississippi River subdeltas. Science, 273, p. 1693-1696.
  40. Törnqvist, T.E. (1998), Longitudinal profile evolution of the Rhine-Meuse system during the last deglaciation: interplay of climate change and glacio-eustasy? Terra Nova, 10, p. 11-15.
  41. Törnqvist, T.E. & Bridge, J.S., 2002. Spatial variation of overbank aggradation rate and its influence on avulsion frequency. Sedimentology, 49, p. 891-905.
  42. Törnqvist, T.E., Wallinga, J. & Busschers, F.S. (2003), Timing of the last sequence boundary in a fluvial setting near the highstand shoreline - Insights from optical dating. Geology, 31, p. 279-282.
  43. Willemse, N.W. & Törnqvist, T.E., (1999), Holocene century-scale temperature variability from West Greenland lake records. Geology, 27, p. 580-584.
  44. Wallinga, J., Törnqvist, T.E., Busschers, F.S. & Weerts, H.J.T., (2004), Allogenic forcing of the late Quaternary Rhine-Meuse fluvial record: the interplay of sea-level change, climate change and crustal movements. Basin Research, 16, p. 535-547.