Heat flow and depth versus age for the Mesozoic northwest Atlantic Ocean: results from the Sohm abyssal plain and implications for the Bermuda Rise

Details Heat flow and depth versus age for the Mesozoic northwest Atlantic Ocean: results from the Sohm abyssal plain and implications for the Bermuda Rise Heat flow and depth versus age for the Mesozoic northwest Atlantic Ocean: results from the Sohm abyssal plain and implications for the Bermuda Rise

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987e%26psl..83..109l&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 83, Issue 1-4, p. 109-122.

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Heat flow in the Sohm abyssal plain is measured to be 53 mW/m2 at an age of 163 Ma. This is 25% higher than predicted by conductive cooling models, even though the sediment-corrected basement depth of 6.5 km at this location is normal for its age. An analysis of existing heat flow, depth and geoid anomalies in the northwest Atlantic shows that there is little correlation between heat flow and depth throughout the entire region. Depth and geoid are clearly related to the Bermuda swell while the associated heat flow anomaly, once adjusted for variations with age, is limited to 5 mW/m2 and only decays to the south. This means that the Bermuda swell is probably not caused by extensive thermal reheating within the lithosphere, but instead by dynamic uplift at its lower boundary due to the convective upwelling of a mantle plume. The regionally high heat flow in the northwest Atlantic may be a thermal remanent of previous plumes which passed beneath this region early in its history. Therefore, depth and heat flow anomalies from this region cannot be used to provide constraints on steady-state parameters of the lithosphere, such as the presence or absence of a long-term boundary layer at its base.
Now at Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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