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Geothermal Heating in the Panama Basin: 1. Hydrography of the Basin

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Donata Banyte, Dr Miguel Morales MaquedaORCiD, Dr Alex Megann

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Abstract

The Panama Basin serves as a laboratory to investigate abyssal water upwelling. The basin has only a single abyssal water inflow pathway through the narrow Ecuador Trench. The estimated critical inflow through the Trench reaches 0.34 ± 0.07 m/s, resulting in an abyssal water volume inflow of 0.29 ± 0.07 Sv. The same trench carries the return flow of basin waters that starts just 200 m above the bottom and is approximately 400‐m deeper than the depth of the next possible deep water exchange pathway at the Carnegie Ridge Saddle. The curvature of temperature‐salinity diagrams is used to differentiate the effect of geothermal heating on the deep Panama Basin waters that was found to reach as high as 2,200‐m depth, which is about 500 m above the upper boundary of the abyssal water layer.


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Author(s): Banyte D, Morales Maqueda MA, Smeed DA, Hobbs R, Megann A, Recalde S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Year: 2018

Volume: 123

Issue: 10

Pages: 7382-7392

Print publication date: 01/10/2018

Online publication date: 24/08/2018

Acceptance date: 21/05/2018

Date deposited: 24/01/2019

ISSN (print): 2169-9275

ISSN (electronic): 2169-9291

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013868

DOI: 10.1029/2018JC013868


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NE/I022868/1
OCE 1353114

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