River Lek (IMAGE)

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River Lek

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Even long before medieval inhabitants reclaimed land and raised dykes at a large scale, humans have had a strong impact on river behavior in the Dutch delta plain. Physical geographers at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, have demonstrated that two present Rhine branches developed stepwise in the first centuries CE, because of two combined man-induced effects.

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https://beeldbank.rws.nl, Rijkswaterstaat/Joop van Houdt.

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