Compaction and dewatering processes of the oceanic sediments in the Costa Rica and Barbados subduction zones: Estimates from in situ physical property measurements

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 283-293

  Saito, Saneatsu ^a,c   Goldberg, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedges; Barbados; Compaction; Costa Rica; Pore water

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COMPACTION; DEWATERING; FLUID FLOW; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034776483     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00403-4     Document Type: Article

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