Fluid flow in accretionary prisms: evidence for focused, time-variable discharge

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 329-351

  Carson, Bobb ^a   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^b,c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRISM;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEFORMATION; FLUID FLOW;

CARBON; DEPOSITS; FAULTING; GAS HYDRATES; HYDROCARBONS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRISMS; SEDIMENTS; VOLCANOES;

CHEMOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; FAULT-ZONE PERMEABILITIES; INTENSE DEFORMATION; MEASURED TEMPERATURES; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; THERMOGENIC HYDROCARBONS; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0031732216     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RG03633     Document Type: Article

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