Advective Heat Transport and the Salt Chimney Effect: A Numerical Analysis

Figure 1

The salt chimney effect. (a) A cross section through the North East German Basin showing salt structures as the dark shaded region in the bottom and temperature isotherms as the gray lines. (b) A close up 3-D representation of box 1 in panel (a) of convex isotherms above buried salt diapirs. (c) A 3-D representation of box 2 in panel (a) of concave isotherms within and below buried salt diapirs; modified from Kaiser et al. [6].