Netherlands Journal of Geosciences publishes new and significant research in the geosciences, with a regional focus on the Netherlands, including the Dutch offshore and the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. We also welcome studies of adjacent areas and other regions that are relevant to the understanding of the geology of the Netherlands. Learn more >>
Drowned palaeo-landscapes: archaeological and geoscientific research at the Southern North Sea coast

During the Holocene sea-level rise shifting coastline and depositional processes resulted in the burial of coastal zone deposits and corresponding biocoenoses along the North Sea coast leading, in parts, to their preservation in the sedimentary record. The sedimentary sequence of the Wadden Sea coast provide an excellent archive, including both faunal and floral micro- and macrofossils as well as human artefacts. Based on multiproxy approaches the postglacial landscape development, sedimentary processes, sea level and climate changes as well as prehistoric human settlement strategies and historic coastal protection measures can be reconstructed.