Combining seismically derived temperature with heat flow and bathymetry to constrain the thermal structure of oceanic lithosphere

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 390-400

  Goutorbe, Bruno ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conductive models; Oceanic lithosphere; Surface wave tomography; Thermal evolution; Upper mantle seismic velocity

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; UPPER MANTLE;

BIOLOGY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASAL TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE CONVECTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77953722091     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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