Relationship between helium isotopes and heat flux from hot springs in a non-volcanic region, Kii Peninsula, southwest Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Umeda, Koji ^a   Sakagawa, Yukihiro ^a   Ninomiya, Atusi ^a   Asamori, Koichi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; PECLET NUMBER; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

DEEP FLUIDS; IGNEOUS INTRUSIONS; NON-VOLCANIC REGION;

HOT SPRINGS;

ADVECTION; BOREHOLE; CORRELATION; CRUST; GEOPHYSICS; HEAT FLUX; HELIUM ISOTOPE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE; NUMERICAL METHOD; THERMAL SPRING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI;

EID: 34249908927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028975     Document Type: Article

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