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The Rhine Valley Between the Neuwied Basin and the Lower Rhenish Embayment

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Plateau Uplift

Abstract

The older Rhine terraces rise with increasing steepness from N to S caused by tectonic tilting.

The elevation of the terraces is modified by the subsiding Neuwied Basin, by the saddle form upward doming area north of it and by some flexure zones; one zone is located near the southern end of the Lower Rhenish Embayment and the second is where the Palaeozoic basement submerges under the Cretaceous and Cenozoic coverbeds.

This tectonic pattern is again modified by local block faulting along the Middle Rhine valley.

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  1. Geologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 49, D-5000, Köln 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    W. Boenigk

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  1. Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Hertzstraße 16, D-7500, Karlsruhe 21, Germany

    Karl Fuchs

  2. Institut für Geochemie, Petrologie und Lagerstättenkunde, Universität Frankfurt, Postfach 111932, D-6000, Frankfurt 11, Germany

    Kurt von Gehlen

  3. Geodätisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstraße 12, D-7500, Karlsruhe 1, Germany

    Hermann Mälzer

  4. Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 32-34, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Hans Murawski

  5. Institut für Physische Geographie, Senckenberganlage 36, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Arno Semmel

  6. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Senckenberganlage 36, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Arno Semmel

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Brunnacker, K., Boenigk, W. (1983). The Rhine Valley Between the Neuwied Basin and the Lower Rhenish Embayment. In: Fuchs, K., von Gehlen, K., Mälzer, H., Murawski, H., Semmel, A. (eds) Plateau Uplift. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69219-2_7

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