Topographic relief and sediment thickness Their effects on the thermal evolution of the oceanic crust
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. We compiled a suite of 490 heat flow measurements from the Pacific Ocean in areas with less than 85 m of sediment. Heat flow patterns at different basement ages vary with topographic relief. Areas with reliefs < 300 meters are conductively blanketed at 40-60 m.y. and may stop convecting at 70-90 m.y. Areas with reliefs > 300 meters are conductively blanketed at70-90 m.y. and convect out to > 90-110 m.y.
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