Structure, temporal evolution, and heat flux estimates from the Lucky Strike deep-sea hydrothermal field derived from seafloor image mosaics

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Barreyre, Thibaut ^a   Escartín, Javier ^a   Garcia, Rafael ^b   Cannat, Mathilde ^a   Mittelstaedt, Eric ^c   Prados, Ricard ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

heat fluxes; hydrothermal activity; image mosaics; mid ocean ridges; temporal variability

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORE DEPOSITS; PLUMBING; SURVEYS; VENTS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE PROCESS; ACTIVE ZONE; COLD SEEPS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLUID FLOW DYNAMICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; HYDROTHERMAL FIELD; IMAGE MOSAIC; IMAGE MOSAICING; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OUTFLOW ZONES; PLUMBING SYSTEMS; SEA FLOOR; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; STRIKE SYSTEMS; SUB-SEAFLOOR; TEMPORAL DECLINE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES;

HEAT FLUX;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OUTFLOW; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LUCKY STRIKE FIELD;

EID: 84860251687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003990     Document Type: Article

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