Time-dependent thermal state of the lithosphere in the foreland of the Eastern Carpathians bend. Insights from new geothermal measurements and modelling results

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 896-912

  Demetrescu, Crisan ^a   Wilhelm, H ^b   Tumanian, M ^a   Nielsen, S B ^c   Damian, A ^a   Dobrica V ^a   Ene, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carpathians foreland; Geothermics; Heat flow; Lithosphere rheology; Sedimentation; Thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT PRODUCTION; LITHOSPHERE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34547225099     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03408.x     Document Type: Article

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