The thermal influence on the consolidation state of underthrust sediments from the Nankai margin and its implications for excess pore pressure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 324-332

  Hupers A ^a   Kopf, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nankai; pore pressure; subductions zones; thermal consolidation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BASIN SEDIMENTS; CONSOLIDATION STATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DRILL SITES; DRILLING DATA; EFFECTIVE NORMAL STRESS; ELEVATED STRESS; ENDMEMBERS; EXCESS PORE PRESSURE; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; IN-SITU; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; NANKAI; OCEANIC PLATE; OVER-PRESSURES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PORE SPACE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SECONDARY CONSOLIDATION; SMECTITES; STRESS STATE; SUBDUCTION THRUST; SUBDUCTIONS ZONES; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; THERMAL CONSOLIDATION; THERMAL INFLUENCE;

CLAY MINERALS; DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURVEYS; THERMAL LOGGING;

CONSOLIDATION;

CONSOLIDATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DIAGENESIS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PORE PRESSURE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69549133403     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.047     Document Type: Article

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