New terrestrial heat flow measurements on the Nazca Plate |
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| Authors: | Roger N Anderson Marcus G Langseth Victor Vacquier Jean Francheteau |
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| Institution: | 1. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, N.Y. USA;2. Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. USA;3. Centre National pour l''Exploitation des Oce´ans, Centre Oce´anologique de Bre?tagne, Brest France |
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| Abstract: | Sixty-seven new heat flow measurements on the Nazca Plate are reported, and the thermal regimes of three specific areas on the plate are examined. The Nazca Ridge is an aseismic ridge which may have been generated as an “island trail” from the Easter Island “hot spot” and/or may be a fossil transform fault. The Nazca Ridge has lower heat flow than the surrounding sea floor implying that the ridge might have low “effective” thermal conductivity causing heat to preferentially flow or refract to surrounding ocean crust which has higher conductivity, or, the low heat flow values may be caused by hydrothermal circulation on the ridge. The Carnegie Plateau is an elevated region south of the Carnegie Ridge on the northeastern Nazca Plate with high heat flow and shallow topography consistent with an age of less than 20 m.y. B.P. The central Nazca Plate is an area of highly variable heat flow which is possibly related to thin sediment and to rough regional topography. |
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