Corrigendum to ‘Lower crustal flow and the role of shear in basin subsidence: An example from the Dead Sea Basin’: [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 199 (2002) 67–79

Abstract

We regret that errors in the numerical evaluation of equations (11) and (12) resulted in an incorrect estimation of the eiective viscosity of the lower crust under the Dead Sea Basin. For the range of the observed heat £ow in the region (45^53 mW/m 3 ), the temperature range is between 280 and 343‡C at a depth of 20 km, and between 387 and 483‡C at a depth of 30 km. The values depend on the radiogenic heat production and its distribution within the crust. With another commonly used value for the surface value of radiogenic heat production A0 = 1.2 mW/m 3 , and the logarithmic decrement of heat production with depth H = 10 km (e.g. [1]), the temperature at a depth of 30 km under the Dead Sea Basin can reach as high as 538‡C.