Flow reorganizations in the Panama Seaway: A cause for the demise of Miocene corals?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-4

  von der Heydt, Anna ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS; WATER;

CLIMATE MODELS; MIOCENE; SEAWAY; TECTONIC EVENTS;

FLOW OF WATER;

COOLING; CORAL; EXTINCTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 16344393411     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020990     Document Type: Article

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