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Edifice of Fluvial Terrace Flights, Stacks and Rows

Version 1 : Received: 31 August 2020 / Approved: 2 September 2020 / Online: 2 September 2020 (04:55:14 CEST)

A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.

Schirmer, W. Edifice of Fluvial Terrace Flights, Stacks and Rows. Geosciences 2020, 10, 501. Schirmer, W. Edifice of Fluvial Terrace Flights, Stacks and Rows. Geosciences 2020, 10, 501.

Abstract

The paper is a kind of a small guide book through the textures and structures of river deposits in valleys. It presents principles of the flument systems with morphological river terraces and fluments (terrace bodies), different stages of the morphological terraces, structure of the flument, texture of terrace flights, terrace stacks and terrace rows. Special topics deal with flument overlaps and insight into the valley ground.

Keywords

river terrace; flument (terrace body), terrace flight; terrace row; flument stack; flument overlap; valley ground

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology

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