Geothermal Study of Continental Rifting in the Woodlark Basin

在为期30天的巡航中，PI将对新裂陷的Woodlark盆地大陆基底区的沉积物进行一系列热流测量，以研究从裂谷到共轭边缘阶段的伸展演化。在这个年轻的边缘，热效应尚未消散。热流值将对岩石圈在伸展过程中随温度变化的力学特性提供约束。环境和热液对热流状态的影响被认为是很小的，并且已经有了带状测深、侧扫描成像和重力和磁力数据。

The PI will make a series of heat flow measurements during a 30-day cruise in the sediments of the continental basement areas of the newly rifting Woodlark Basin to examine the evolution of extension from rift to conjugate margin stage. Thermal effects have not yet dissipated in this young margin. Heat flow values will provide constraints on temperature-dependent mechanical properties of the lithosphere during extension. Environmental and hydrothermal effects on the heat flow regime are considered to be small and swath bathymetry, sidescan imagery and gravity and magnetics data already exist.