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Topographic relief and sediment thickness: Their effects on the thermal evolution of the oceanic crust

Abbott, Dallas Helen; Stein, Carol A.; Diachok, Orest

We compiled a suite of 490 heat flow measurements from the Pacific Ocean in areas with less than 85 m of sediment. Heat flow patterns at different basement ages vary with topographic relief. Areas with reliefs < 300 meters are conductively blanketed at 40–60 m.y. and may stop convecting at 70–90 m.y. Areas with reliefs > 300 meters are conductively blanketed at 70–90 m.y. and convect out to ≥ 90–110 m.y.

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Title
Geophysical Research Letters
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1029/92GL01996

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Academic Units
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Marine Geology and Geophysics
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Published Here
January 21, 2016