“…Low energy conditions have been identified in an number of river channels across the region, for example peat may have continued to form in the Selle (Antoine et al, 2003) and there was reduced flow in the southern Netherlands (Bohncke & Vandenberghe 1991) and north Belgium (Vandenberghe et al, 1984). In the majority of rivers across northwest Europe, however, this period was characterised by meandering behaviour, for example in the Loire in south-central France (Colls et al, 2001), Teleorman in Romania (Howard et al, 2004), Vistula (Starkel, 2002) and Upper Rhine (Dambeck & Thiemeyer, 2002), with some episodes of incision e.g. in the Dneister (Huhmann et al 2003).…”