Modeling the magnitude and timing of evaporative drawdown during the Messinian salinity crisis

Stratigraphy

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 227-243

  Ryan, William B F ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DEPOSITION; DRAWDOWN; GLOBAL OCEAN; GROUNDWATER; MAGNITUDE; MESSINIAN; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 58249092838     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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