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xii, 111 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Content:
Sedimentary valley fills are a widespread characteristic of mountain belts around the world. They transiently store material over time spans ranging from thousands to millions of years and therefore play an important role in modulating the sediment flux from the orogen to the foreland and to oceanic depocenters. In most cases, their formation can be attributed to specific fluvial conditions, which are closely related to climatic and tectonic processes. Hence, valley-fill deposits constitute valuable archives that offer fundamental insight into landscape evolution, and their study may help to assess the impact of future climate change on sediment dynamics. In this thesis I analyzed intermontane valley-fill deposits to constrain different aspects of the climatic and tectonic history of mountain belts over multiple timescales. First, I developed a method to estimate the thickness distribution of valley fills using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Based on the assumption of geometrical similarity between exposed and buried parts of…
Note:
kumulative Dissertation
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät 2016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Mey, Jürgen Intermontane valley fills Potsdam, 2017
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochgebirge
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Fluviale Sedimentation
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Klastische Sedimentation
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Schlucht
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Tal
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Terrigenes Sediment
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Alpen
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Lockergestein
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Terrestrisches Sediment
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Mächtigkeit
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Neuronales Netz
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Hochland von Tibet
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Karakorum
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Sediment
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Mächtigkeit
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Neuronales Netz
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Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Strecker, Manfred 1955-
