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A large amount of sediments was deposited in Tertiairy and Quaternary times in the Netherlands, situated at the edge of the subsiding North Sea basin. The base of the Quaternary in the northwest and west Netherlands lies between 300 and 500 m below sea level.
Rijks Geologische Dienst, Spaarne 17, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
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Breeuwer, J.B., Jelgersma, S. (1973). An East-West Geo-Hydrological Section Across the Netherlands. In: van der Sijp, J.W.C.M., Boissevain, H., Thiadens, A.A., Romijn, E. (eds) New aspects of mineral and water resources in The Netherlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7129-0_13
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