Thermal basin modelling of the Arauco forearc basin, south central Chile - Heat flow and active margin tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 495, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 111-128

  Kuhn, Philipp P ^a,b   Echtler, Helmut ^a   Littke, Ralf ^b   Alfaro, Guillermo ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Basin modelling; Forearc basin; Temperature history; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSIONS; BASIN MODELLING; FORE-ARC BASIN; TEMPERATURE HISTORY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

COAL MINES; CORE DRILLING; CORE SAMPLES; DRILLS; EROSION; HEAT TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE MARGIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; FOREARC BASIN; HEAT FLOW; MAGNITUDE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL MATURITY;

CHILE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78649705230     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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