Anomalously high porosities in the proto-decollement zone of the Barbados accretionary complex: Do they indicate overpressures?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1993-1996

  Screaton, Elizabeth ^a   Ge, Shemin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DECOLLEMENT; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

BARBADOS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OFFSHORE DRILLING; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

OVERPRESSURE; PROTODECOLLEMENT ZONE; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034352823     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011240     Document Type: Article

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