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Heat flow in eastern Egypt - The thermal signature of a continental breakupIt is noted that the Red Sea is a modern example of continental fragmentation and incipient ocean formation. A consistent pattern of high heat flow in the Red Sea margins and coastal zone, including Precambrian terrane up to at least 30 km from the Red Sea, has emerged from the existing data. It is noted that this pattern has important implications for the mode and mechanism of Red Sea opening. High heat flow in the Red Sea shelf requires either a high extension of the crust in this zone (probably with major basic magmatic activity) or young oceanic crust beneath this zone. High heat flow in the coastal thermal anomaly zone may be caused by lateral conduction from the offshore lithosphere and/or from high mantle heat flow. It is suggested that new oceanic crust and highly extended continental crust would be essentially indistinguishable with the available data in the Red Sea margins, and are for many purposes essentially identical.
Document ID
19870066351
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Morgan, P.
(Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX; Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, United States)
Boulos, F. K.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
Hennin, S. F.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
El-Sherif, A. A.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
El-Sayed, A. A.
(Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority Cairo, Egypt)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geodynamics
Volume: 4
ISSN: 0264-3707
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
87A53625
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF INT-78-16649
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF EAR-77-23354
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-4066
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-3389
Distribution Limits
Public
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