U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: Heat Flow/Basement Depth Studies for the Ocean Crust in the Western Gulf of Mexico

该奖项将支持研究合作 由约翰·斯克拉特教授领导的一个小组 斯克里普斯海洋研究所和里卡多教授 科学研究中心的费尔南德斯 墨西哥恩塞纳达上级教育中心。 合作的目的是研究 墨西哥湾热流与深度的关系 墨西哥 墨西哥湾西部的旧洋底 通过海洋地壳观察到的最低热流。 大多数研究人员忽略了这些数据， 在60年代收集，将低值归因于 异常快速的沉积或非线性的热 梯度。 然而，对大部分数据的重新分析表明， 表明非线性梯度的作用 被夸大了，大部分数据可能是 可靠 对于这个项目，研究人员打算 进行详细的热流测量， 在墨西哥湾的网站，使个人 在两个地点之间的横断面上测量， 分析这些数据，并确定它是否支持 热边界层模型由 以前的测量

This award will support a research collaboration between a group headed by Prof. John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Prof. Ricardo Fernandez of the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Educacion Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) of Mexico. The purpose of the collaboration is to study the relation between heat flow and depth in the Gulf of Mexico. The old ocean floor of the western Gulf of Mexico has the lowest heat flow observed through oceanic crust. Most researchers have ignored these data, which was collected in the 60's, attributing the low values to unusually rapid sedimentation or to non-linear thermal gradients. However, a re-analysis of much of the data suggests that the role of non-linear gradients has been exaggerated and that much of the data may be reliable. For this project, the investigators intend to carry out detailed heat flow surveys around two sites in the Gulf of Mexico, make individual measurements on a transect between the two sites, analyze these data, and determine whether it supports the thermal boundary layer model indicated by the earlier measurements.