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The Netherlands is mostly composed of deltaic, coastal and eolian derived sediments during the Pleistocene glacial and interglacial periods. Fairly all of the west Netherlands is composed of the Rhine - Meuse river estuary, but human intervention greatly modified the natural processes at work. Most of the western Netherlands is below sea level ...
The geography of the European Netherlands is unusual in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes. It is a small country with a total area of 41,545 km 2 (16,041 sq mi) [ 1 ] and ranked 131st. With a population of 17.4 million [ 2 ] and density of 521/km 2 (1,350/sq mi) makes it the second ...
The Netherlands, [ j ] informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [ 13 ] The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea ...
Zuidwal volcano. The Zuidwal volcano is an extinct volcano in the Netherlands at more than 2 km (6,600 ft) below ground under the Wadden Sea, between Harlingen and Vlieland, just south west of the island Griend. The volcano was last active during the late Jurassic, (about 160 - 148 Ma ago) and has since been covered by about 2,000 metres (6,600 ...
Doggerland. Appearance. Coordinates: 52.°N3°E52°N 3°E. Map of Doggerland at its near maximum extent c. 10,000 years Before Present (~ 8000 BCE) (top left) and its subsequent disintegration by 7000 BP (~5000 BCE) Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea. This region was repeatedly ...
Pages in category "Geology of the Netherlands". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Geology of the Netherlands.
The Groningen gas field is a natural gas field in Groningen province in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. With an estimated 2,740 billion cubic metres of recoverable natural gas, it is the largest natural gas field in Europe [ a ] and one of the largest in the world. The gas field was discovered in 1959 near Slochteren, in the northeast ...
A Catastrophic Event at the Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary (1981) Jan Smit (born 8 April 1948) is a Dutch paleontologist. He was affiliated with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2013 as a professor of event stratigraphy, studying rapid changes in the geological record related to mass ...