CRRUST Scientific Team (1982): (Table 2) Bottom-hole temperature measurements at DSDP Sites 68-501, 69-504, and 69-505 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.717889
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Abstract:
Drilling durin Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 68, 69, and 70 on the southern limb of the Costa Rica Rift was used to study geothermal processes in the ocean crust. Two areas were drilled. One was a geothermally hot site on 6.2-m.y.-old crust, where topography is smooth, heat flow is close to that predicted by conductive cooling of the lithosphere (200 mWm**-2), and hydrothermal circulation may be sealed within the crust. The other was on 3.9-m.y.-old crust, where rough topography is associated with low heat flow (15 to 50 mWm**-2) and possible open convection of sea water. At both sites, about 250 m of siliceous-calcareous sediments overlies igneous basement. In the hot area, it blankets the topography, whereas in the cold area, basement outcrops still occur. Operations included numerous down-hole experiments in both areas and hydraulic piston coring of a 230-m sediment section in the hot area.
Diagenesis of the sediments appears closely related to temperature. At the hot site, chert was found near basement, and the chemistry of pore fluids, sampled from both sediments and basement, is strongly influenced by reactions within the basement. Strong lateral gradients in the composition of pore fluids occur in the sediments. At the cold site, no chert was found, and bacterial processes within the sediment dominated the chemistry of the pore fluids.
Basaltic basement in both areas consists mainly of pillow lavas and thin flows, with occasional more massive units. The basalt is relatively magnesian. The degree of alteration is very small in the cold area, but much more extensive in the hot area. Ease of drilling also shows a strong contrast. Basement penetration reached 562 m in the hot area and was halted because of lack of time; at the cold site, 43 m of basement was cored only with difficulty.
The most intensive in-hole experiments were conducted in the hot area. Successful runs with the borehole televiewer allowed basement lithology to be determined and showed the presence of more and less fractured zones. Pulse tests using a single borehole packer gave values of basement permeability of about 2 to 40 millidarcies. Numerous temperature logs established a broadly conductive in situ temperature gradient, with temperatures reaching 120°C at 562 m into the basement. However, anomalously low temperatures in the upper part of the hole, which persisted after drilling disturbance had decayed away, showed that cold ocean water was flowing down the hole and into the basement at about 90 m below the base of the sediments, at rates of about 80 to 100 m/hr. The packer records indicate a pressure at this depth of 10 bars below hydrostatic.
Related to:
CRRUST Scientific Team (1982): Geothermal regimes of the Costa Rica Rift, east Pacific, investigated by drilling, DSDP-IPOD Legs 68, 69, and 70. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 93(9), 862-875, https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1982)93%3C862:GROTCR%3E2.0.CO;2
Project(s):
Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 1.455933 * Median Longitude: -83.751933 * South-bound Latitude: 1.227200 * West-bound Longitude: -83.790000 * North-bound Latitude: 1.913300 * East-bound Longitude: -83.731500
Date/Time Start: 1979-07-08T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1979-10-14T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 220.0 m
Event(s):
68-501 * Latitude: 1.227200 * Longitude: -83.734300 * Date/Time: 1979-07-08T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3457.0 m * Penetration: 337.1 m * Recovery: 70.5 m * Location: North Pacific/FLANK * Campaign: Leg68 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 19 cores; 137.7 m cored; 0.5 m drilled; 51.2 % recovery
69-504C * Latitude: 1.227300 * Longitude: -83.731500 * Date/Time: 1979-10-14T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3460.0 m * Penetration: 220 m * Recovery: 220 m * Campaign: Leg69 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL)
69-505 * Latitude: 1.913300 * Longitude: -83.790000 * Date/Time: 1979-09-29T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3537.0 m * Penetration: 242 m * Recovery: 187.1 m * Location: North Pacific/GRABEN * Campaign: Leg69 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 26 cores; 223 m cored; 0 m drilled; 83.9 % recovery
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | CRRUST Scientific Team | |||
| 2 | Latitude of event | Latitude | CRRUST Scientific Team | |||
| 3 | Longitude of event | Longitude | CRRUST Scientific Team | |||
| 4 | Elevation of event | Elevation | m | CRRUST Scientific Team | ||
| 5 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | CRRUST Scientific Team | Geocode | |
| 6 | Temperature, in rock/sediment | t | °C | CRRUST Scientific Team | ||
| 7 | Net thermal resistance | NTR | m2 K/W | CRRUST Scientific Team | ||
| 8 | Heat flow | HF | mW/m2 | CRRUST Scientific Team | net; calculated using temperature differences between depth given and sea floor | |
| 9 | Heat flow | HF | mW/m2 | CRRUST Scientific Team | interval; calculated using temperature difference between depth given and point immediately |
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