An assessment of along-strike fluid and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex: Results of preliminary modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3085-3088

  Screaton, Elizabeth ^a,b   Ge, Shemin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER DRILLING; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LANDFORMS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL MODELS; DEEP SEA DRILLING; DEFORMATION FRONT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PORE PRESSURE RATIOS; PRELIMINARY MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HYDROLOGY;

DECOLLEMENT ZONE; THERMAL ADVECTION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DECOLLEMENT; FLUID TRANSPORT; HEAT TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC, BARBADOS RIDGE;

EID: 0031425427     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03097     Document Type: Article

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