Coupled mechanical and hydrothermal modeling of crustal accretion at intermediate to fast spreading ridges

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 275-286

  Theissen Krah, Sonja ^a   Iyer, Karthik ^a   Rüpke, Lars H ^a   Morgan, Jason Phipps ^b  

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

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Gabbro glacier; Mid ocean ridge; Ocean crust; Permeability

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; CRUSTAL PERMEABILITY; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE MELT; MELT INJECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MODELING RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN CRUST; OCEANIC CRUST; OFF-AXIS; PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SHALLOW MELT; SPREADING RATE; SPREADING RIDGE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

COOLING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ACCRETION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOACCUMULATION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; PERMEABILITY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

EID: 80054107705     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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