Abstract
The continuous sediment cover has allowed detailed and extensive mapping of the distribution of surface heat flow throughout the Guaymas basin; more than 400 heat-flow measurements have been collected since 1959 in crust ranging in age from 0 to about 3 Ma. Away from the sites of crustal accretion, the background heat flow throughout the Guaymas Basin is about 180±10 mW/m2. Within the two spreading centers of the basin, known as the northern and southern troughs, heat-flow values range from 0 to nearly 9 W/m2, and variations of two orders of magnitude occur over distances as short as a few hundred meters. Heat-flow patterns generally follow the northeast-southwest structural trend of the central troughs but are locally controlled by recent intrusive activity and associated hydrothermal circulation. -from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Gulf and Peninsula Province of the Californias |
| Editors | J.P. Dauphin, B.R.T. Simoneit |
| Publisher | AAPG Memoir 47 |
| Pages | 709-720 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - 1991 |
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A brief review of heat-flow studies in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. / Becker, Keir; Fisher, A. T.
The Gulf and Peninsula Province of the Californias. ed. / J.P. Dauphin; B.R.T. Simoneit. AAPG Memoir 47, 1991. p. 709-720.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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AB - The continuous sediment cover has allowed detailed and extensive mapping of the distribution of surface heat flow throughout the Guaymas basin; more than 400 heat-flow measurements have been collected since 1959 in crust ranging in age from 0 to about 3 Ma. Away from the sites of crustal accretion, the background heat flow throughout the Guaymas Basin is about 180±10 mW/m2. Within the two spreading centers of the basin, known as the northern and southern troughs, heat-flow values range from 0 to nearly 9 W/m2, and variations of two orders of magnitude occur over distances as short as a few hundred meters. Heat-flow patterns generally follow the northeast-southwest structural trend of the central troughs but are locally controlled by recent intrusive activity and associated hydrothermal circulation. -from Authors
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