Salt tectonics and shallow subseafloor fluid convection: Models of coupled fluid-heat-salt transport

Geofluids

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-386

  Wilson, A ^a   Ruppel, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brine; Heat flow; Pore water; Salt tectonics; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SALT DOME; SALT TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; THERMAL CONVECTION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 35348980780     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: 14688123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2007.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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