Serpentinization pulse in the actively deforming Central Indian Basin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 140-151

  Delescluse, Matthias ^a,c   Chamot Rooke, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

active faults; deformation; friction; heat flow; multichannel seismic; oceanic lithosphere; serpentinization

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; MAXIMUM REACTION RATE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SERPENTINIZATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; UPDATED GEOMETRIES;

DEFORMATION;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; HEAT FLOW; MOHO; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RHEOLOGY; SERPENTINIZATION; SHEAR STRESS; THRUST FAULT;

CENTRAL INDIAN BASIN; INDIAN OCEAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 55549130435     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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