Print Email Facebook Twitter Rhine Title Rhine Author Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2013-12-01 Abstract The territorial system of the Rhine-Meuse- Scheldt Delta, located between the Netherlands and Belgium, is characterised by the omnipresence of water in different environments. From the North Sea coast to the delta estuaries, this territorial system is formed by the confluence of three major rivers from northwest Europe: the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt. The larger rivers of the Rhine and the Meuse are divided into Nederrijn-Lek, Waal-Merwede and IJssel, where river clay deposits are dominant. In the northwest region, the delta includes the former Zuiderzee and part of the marine clay deposits in Friesland, and in the southwest, it receives the contribution of the river Scheldt. In the northernmost part, the influence of the North Sea is predominant, where the delta mainly contains marine clay deposits (Nienhuis, 2008). The delta measures 41,543 km2, of which large parts of its surface lie below sea level: the lowest elevation is -6.74 m at Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel in the west of the Netherlands. The lower plain is protected by coastal dunes and an extensive system of dams and dikes. Safety levels are 1/10,000 years for the coastal defence and 1/1,250 years for river dikes. The design discharge is 16,000 m3/s for the Rhine River at Lobith, and 3,800 m3/s for the Meuse River at Eijsden (Schielen and Havinga, 2010); the annual rainfall is 800 mm. Subject Rhineriverdeltalandscape To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:807e0db7-523f-47c5-b2af-b24471ab6141 Publisher LiSt Lab Laboratorio ISBN 9788895623870 Source Toward an atlas of the European delta landscape / Maria Chiara Tosi Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2013 Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. Files PDF 312062.pdf 724.34 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:807e0db7-523f-47c5-b2af-b24471ab6141/datastream/OBJ/view