Thermal regime of the Costa Rican convergent margin: 2. Thermal models of the shallow Middle America subduction zone offshore Costa Rica

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Harris, Robert N ^a   Spinelli, Glenn ^b   Ranero, Csar R ^c   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^d   Villinger, Heinrich ^e   Barckhausen, Udo ^f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluid flow; subduction zones; thermal model

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; FLUIDS; FORECASTING; NUSSELT NUMBER; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); VENTILATION;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; COSTA RICA; EAST PACIFIC RISE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FLUID FLOW; HEAT ADVECTION; HEAT FLOWS; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; MICROSEISMICITY; MODEL FLUIDS; SUBDUCTION THRUST; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL REGIMES; THERMAL STATE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ACCRETION; COCOS PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; NAZCA PLATE; SEISMICITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMAL REGIME;

COSTA RICA; EAST PACIFIC RISE; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78650528793     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003273     Document Type: Article

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