Oceanic heat flow: Implications for global heat loss

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 386-395

  Hasterok, D ^a   Chapman, D S ^a   Davis, E E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global heat loss; Heat flow; Hydrothermal circulation; Oceanic heat loss; Seafloor age

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; CONDUCTIVE COOLING; CONDUCTIVE HEAT; CONDUCTIVELY COOLED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; HEAT FLOW VALUE; HEAT FLOWS; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR AGE; SEDIMENT BURIAL; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SEISMIC DATAS; SITE-SPECIFIC;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; HEAT LOSSES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURVEYS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

DATA SET; HEAT FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 80054695954     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.044     Document Type: Article

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