Viscosity estimates of salt in the Hormuz and Namakdan salt diapirs, Persian Gulf

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 497-507

  Mukherjee, Soumyajit ^a   Talbot, Christopher J ^b   Koyi, Hemin A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hormuz diapir; Namakdan diapir; Newtonian viscous fluid; Salt diapir; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; SALT TECTONICS; SALTS;

CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; DYNAMIC VISCOSITIES; ELLIPTICAL CROSS SECTION; HORMUZ DIAPIR; NAMAKDAN DIAPIR; NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGIES; NEWTONIAN VISCOUS FLUID; SALT DIAPIRS;

VISCOSITY;

DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; GRAIN SIZE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NEWTONIAN FLUID; RHEOLOGY; SALT DOME; VELOCITY PROFILE; VISCOUS FLOW;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 77953620391     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680999077X     Document Type: Article

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