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The surface heat flow of the Arabian Shield in Jordan

Andrea Förster, Hans Jürgen Förster

Surface heat flow in southern Jordan was determined from a cluster of five boreholes, each reaching depths of up to 900 m and penetrating Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The study area lies along the eastern margin of the Dead Sea Transform fault system and covers approximately 300 km². Continuous temperature logs were collected from each borehole and combined with laboratory measurements of thermal conductivity obtained from drill cores and surface rock samples to calculate heat flow values.