The role of seamounts in the transport of heat and fluids: Relations among seamount size, circulation patterns, and crustal heat flow

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Kawada, Yoshifumi ^a   Seama, Nobukazu ^a,b   Urabe, Tetsuro ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Hydrothermal system; Numerical simulation; Oceanic crust; Seamount

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLOWS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAMOUNT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ASPECT RATIO; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISCHARGE; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; OCEANIC CRUST; PERMEABILITY; SEAMOUNT; SEAWATER;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79955658663     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.029     Document Type: Article

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