Heat flow highs on the Norwegian-Barents-Svalbard continental slope: Deep crustal fractures, dewatering, or "memory in the mud"?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3571-3574

  Vogt, Peter R ^a   Sundvor, Eirik ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DEWATERING; FRACTURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HEAT FLOW; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATIONS;

THERMAL GRADIENTS; HEAT TRANSFER;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUB-SEAFLOOR; SYSTEMATIC CORRELATION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0030402145     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03259     Document Type: Article

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