Fluid budgets of subduction zone forearcs: The contribution of splay faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Lauer, Rachel M ^a   Saffer, Demian M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; FLOW RATE;

FLUID EGRESS; FOREARC; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; HYDRAULIC CONNECTION; MODELING STUDIES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; QUANTITATIVE LINKS; SEA FLOOR; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

DEWATERING; FAULT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84864046137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052182     Document Type: Article

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