Positive geothermal anomalies in oceanic crust of Cretaceous age offshore Kamchatka

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Author: G. Delisle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: Geology; QE1-996.5; Stratigraphy; QE640-699; Meiji Seamount; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2-191-2011; https://doaj.org/article/09a33669e6854e75a26f2121f2d6a4b4

Heat flow measurements were carried out in 2009 offshore Kamchatka during the German-Russian joint-expedition KALMAR. An area with elevated heat flow in oceanic crust of Cretaceous age – detected ~30 yr ago in the course of several Russian heat flow surveys – was revisited. One previous interpretati...