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Holocene Sediment Fluxes and Sediment Budgets in the Upper Rhine Area
Research team: P. Houben, M. Schmidt, K.-M. Moldenhauer, H. Thiemeyer, J. Wunderlich,
Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2003-2007). Part of the German IGBP-PAGES research initiative 'RheinLUCIFS'.
Sediment budget for Rockenberg catchment Sediment budget for Nidda catchment
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Methods
- datamodeling of available data: DB application and GIS based data processing techniques
- available digital data: topographical, soil maps, and geological maps (1:25,000), DEMs, aerial photographs and orthophotos, etc.
- Field based soils and sediments recording
- DB and GIS applications
- OSL dating with cross-check by radiocarbon dating
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Publications
- Houben, P. (in prep.). An empirical Holocene sediment budget for Rockenberg catchment, Germany. –
- Houben, P., Henning, J. (in prep.). From landscape occupation to landscape management - Early Medieval cultivation innovation causing the primal large-scale landscape change in Central Europe.
- Houben, P., & Schmidt, M. (submitted). Data modeling and relational database application in a GIS-based Holocene sediment budget study. Catena.
- Hofmann, T., Erkens, G., Cohen, K., Houben, P., Seidel, J., Dikau, R. (in review). Holocene floodplain sediment storage and hillslope erosion within the Rhine catchment. Holocene.
- Houben, P., Hoffmann, T., Zimmermann, A., Dikau, R. 2006. Land use and climatic impacts on the Rhine system during the period of agriculture. Catena, 66: 42–52.
- Dikau, R., Houben, P., Schrott, L. 2005. Der Sedimenthaushalt geomorphologischer Systeme seit Beginn des menschlichen Einflusses. – In: Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie (Ed.): Die Erdoberfläche, Lebens- und Gestaltungsraum des Menschen - Forschungsstrategische und programmatische Leitlinien zukünftiger geomorphologischer Forschung und Lehre: 31–38; Preprint, Heidelberg.
- Lang, A., Bork, H.-R., Mäckel, R., Preston, N., Wunderlich, J., & Dikau, R. (2003): Changes in sediment flux and storage within a fluvial system: some examples from the Rhine catchment. - Hydrol. Proc., 17: 3321-3334.
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