RE: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

Note: comptuer models of oceanographic need not include ALL possible variables 
in order to yield interpretable results.

Hence already existing computer models of the WIS. See, for instance:

Kump, L.R. & R.L. Slingerland. 1999. Circulation and stratification of the 
early Turonian Western Interior Seaway: sensitivity to a
variety of forcings. GSP Special paper 332: 181-190.

Uses GENESIS, an global climate modeling (GCM) oceanographic package.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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