Marine heat flow data in the Guatemala basin, obtained during the GUATOPS project 2022/23

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We measure subbottom temperature profiles at 66 new locations in the Guatemala Basin using MTL temperature sensors, mounted onto a gravity core barrel. Thermal conductivity values were measured on core material of 13 cores using a KD2 Pro needle probe. Heat flow values for 64 of the sites could be derived, showing a regime of very low geothermal heat flow, far below the expected values. there is a distinct boundary between low values north of 9°55'N and elevated values southward. The data were collected during research cruise JC228a, 13.-22. January 2023. The loction is offshore Costa Rica in the Pacific Ocean near 87°W, 10°N in the so called Guatemala Basin. Investigation of the subducting and bending oceanic plate, especially the cooling effect by circulating groundwater was one of the targets. A gravity corer of 6 m was equipped with 6 Miniaturized Temperature Logger (MTL). Vessel: James Cook on Cruise JF228a. The Project names are GUATOPS and GUATOPSheat for the heat flow survey.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.959607
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.959607
Provenance
Creator Kaul, Norbert ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03G0295OB GUATOPSheat
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 10 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-87.366W, 9.783S, -86.676E, 10.402N); Pacific Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-01-15T03:44:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-01-18T10:51:00Z