Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-251-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-251-2021
Retrospectives
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17 Dec 2021
Retrospectives |  | 17 Dec 2021

A tribute to Boenigk (1978): The fluvial development of the Lower Rhine Basin during the late Tertiary and early Quaternary

Philip L. Gibbard

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This is an appraisal of the article by Wolfgang Boenigk published in Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart in 1978.