Hydraulic theory of sea straits applied to the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Marine Geology

Volumn 326-328, Issue , 2012, Pages 131-139

  Meijer, P Th ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gateway; Hydraulic control; Messinian Salinity Crisis; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HYDRAULIC CONTROL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; NONLINEAR NATURE;

CONTROL THEORY; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); GYPSUM; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; MODELS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

GYPSUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MESSINIAN; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SALINITY; SATURATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84868206094     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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