Tidal modeling of an ancient tide-dominated seaway, part 1: Model validation and application to global early cretaceous (aptian) tides

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 393-410

  Wells, Martin R ^a,b   Allison, Peter A ^a   Piggott, Matthew D ^a   Hampson, Gary J ^a   Pain, Christopher C ^a   Gorman, Gerard J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BPExploration Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SANDSTONE; SCALE (DEPOSITS); STRATIGRAPHY; TIDES;

CENTRAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; DATA ASSIMILATION; IMPERIAL COLLEGE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY TESTS; STATE OF THE ART;

TIDAL POWER;

APTIAN; OCEAN TIDE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TETHYS; TIDAL CONSTITUENT; TIDAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; FRANCE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 77953833460     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2010.044     Document Type: Article

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