Workshop
HEAT FLOW PARADOXON WORKSHOP
DESIRE 2008, 12th and 13th March 2008
Kibbutz Dalia, Israel
Programme
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
- Sobolev: Introduction talk - aims of the workshop
- Avraham: What do we know about surface heat flow along the DSF?
- Levite: Heat flow in the Dead Sea area
- Förster: Heat flow of late Proterozoic consolidated terrains, with special emphasis on the Arabian-Nubian Shield
- Garfunkel: How well can we constrain the heat generation and thermal state of the Arabo-Nubian Shield?
- Sobolev: Geodynamic consequences of low heat flow at Dead Sea Transform and around Dead Sea Basin
Thursday, March 13, 2008
A provocative question to get the discussion started: Can the surface heat flow of 40 ±5 (?) mW/m2 be considered as a representative conductive heat flow for the Dead Sea Basin and its surroundings after correction for sedimentation, effects of fluids etc.?
- Förster: Re-assessment of Israels crustal heat flow by data quality assessment, new measurements and modeling
- Shalev: Effect of fluid migration on the observed surface heat flow at and around DSB
Questions to address:
- low present-day surface heat flow in the Dead Sea Basin: an effect of rapid subsidence /sedimentation?
- role of heat advection on present-day surface heat-flow values inside and around the Dead Sea Basin?
- insufficient information on thermal conductivity that lead to errors in heat-flow values?
- influence of topography effects on heat flow overlooked?
- systematic change of heat flow from the E (DST) to the W (Mediterranean)?
- change in heat flow over time
- possible linkage between the heat flow values and direction of propagation of DST
Fieldtrip to Carmel Fault
Participants:
Jim Mechie, Stefan Sobolev, Radwan El-Kelani, Uwe Meyer, Andrea Förste, Hans-Jürgen Förster, Michael Weber, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Khalil Abu Ayyash, Jizak Makowski, Zvi Garfunkel, Amotz Agnon, Ehuda Shalev, Alexey Petrunin, Marl Levite, Michael Lazar