A hydraulic box model study of the Mediterranean response to postglacial sea-level rise

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Matthiesen, Stephan ^a   Haines, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

box model; Holocene; hydraulic control; Mediterranean Sea; sea level; Strait of Gibraltar

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRATIFICATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 1642317117     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000880     Document Type: Article

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