Permeability of underthrust sediments at the Costa Rican subduction zone: Scale dependence and implications for dewatering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Saffer, Demian M ^a,b   McKiernan, Alexander W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

ARGILLACEOUS SEDIMENTS; FLUID EGRESS; SEDIMENT PERMEABILITY; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEDIMENTS;

DEWATERING; PERMEABILITY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

COSTA RICAN MARGIN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 16344389403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021388     Document Type: Article

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