Thermal regime of the Costa Rican convergent margin: 1. Along-strike variations in heat flow from probe measurements and estimated from bottom-simulating reflectors

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Harris, Robert N ^a   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^b   Ranero, César R ^c   Villinger, Heinrich ^d   Barckhausen, Udo ^e   Henke, Thomas ^e,f   Mueller, Christian ^e   Neben, Soenke ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^f TEEC ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

fluid flow; heat flow; Middle America Trench; subduction zones

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; FLUIDS; GEODYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROBES; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION FRONT; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH WAVE NUMBER; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCH; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PROBE MEASUREMENTS; REGIONAL TRENDS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL REGIMES; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COCOS PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION; FLUID FLOW; GEODYNAMICS; HEAT FLOW; METAMORPHISM; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS; THERMAL REGIME; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

COSTA RICA; COSTA RICAN MARGIN; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCH; NICOYA PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78650544794     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003272     Document Type: Article

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