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competent and incompetent sequences, in diapirism and
mud volcanism.
7. Geothermal field and heat regime in the Alpine regions are
clearly differentiated by their geotectonic evolution, rate
of deposition and the sediment cover thickness. The ter-
ritories with eugeosynclinal features, minimal rate of the
present-day deposition and sediment cover thickness have
substantially elevated heat flow and subcrop temperatures
compared with miogeosynclinal areas where the present-
day compensated sedimentation occurs at a great rate and
the sediment thickness is significant.
8. The convective component's fraction in total heat flow of
local structures is 7-20%. It is mostly determined by the
conductivity parameters of fluid channels, by conditions
of the circulation and discharge of thermal ground waters
from lower section intervals. The convective component
forms, as a function of the measure of faulting, regional and
local variability in the heat field and the mosaic nature in
the spatial distribution of formation temperatures corre-
sponding with tectonic features in individual blocks, steps,
anticlinal zones and individual structures.
9. The infiltration water-exchange in the Alpine basins is
insignificant in scale. It covers insignificant parts of their
area and shows up only locally. It develops only in narrow
zones and bands of peripheral frameworks next to adjacent
mountain buildups and in small areas of exposed reservoirs
within eroded folds.
10. The elision water-exchange in reservoirs as a function
of pore fluid outflow from the adjacent compacting clay
sequences must be implemented and is possible in a depth
range shallower than 2,000 m. In deeper horizons, the
amount of fluids squeezed-off from a unit volume of rocks
per unit time is incapable of providing a continuous water
flow from central parts of the depressions and troughs
toward their periphery.
11. The dominating form of ground water flow (and the migra-
tion of hydrocarbons associated with the water) in the
sedimentary sections of Alpine mobile belt basins is the
pulsating-injection subvertical migration through conduct-
ing faults, zones of elevated fracturing, diapir contacts, mud
volcano eruptions, lithofacies unconformities and other
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