Literature Review
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Studies of the thermal state of the Earth. The 16th paper: Terrestrial heat flow in the Japan Sea
Review of Heat Flow Data
Summary All available heat flow data (about 2000 observations) are reviewed and analyzed. Statistical methods are used to summarize the data, and numerical techniques are developed to find their essential features. Analysis of nearby and repeated measurements suggests that regional heat flow variations >0.2 μcal/cm2 sec are significant. At the 95% confidence level, the world's mean heat flow is 1.5±10% μcal/cm2 sec, and the average over the continents does not differ significantly from that over the oceans. Heat flow results are well correlated with major geological features. On land, the average and standard deviation of heat flow values are 0.92±0.17 …
Heat flow measurements in the East Pacific Ocean
Program: Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., April 19–22, 1965
Because it is anticipated that most resolutions will be considered at the opening Plenary Session, it is urged that any who contemplate the presentation of resolutions should forward these resolutions by April 15 to Helmut E. Landsberg (5107 53rd Avenue, Yorkshire Village, Washington 22, D. C.; telephone 440–7287), Chairman of the American Geophysical Union's Committee on Resolutions. Each resolution presented to the Committee should include (a) names of original submitters, (b) whether presented to a Section, and action taken, and (c) whether action is desired in the Plenary Session, or whether the resolution is regarded as only for a particular …
Geothermische Untersuchungen im Saarkarbon
Present status of oceanic heat-flow measurements
Heat flow near the New England seamounts
Terrestrial Heat Flow through Salt-Marsh Peat
Two measurements of the temperature gradient in salt-marsh peat made at an interval of ½ year permit the upward flow of heat to be estimated as 1.37 x 10-6 cal cm-2 sec-1. This value corresponds closely to the average terrestrial heat flow, obtained in mines and wells.
Heat flow determinations in the Canadian arctic archipelago
Terrestrial Heat Flow near Alberta, Virginia
Glubinnyi teplovoi potok v kol- khidskoi nizmennosti - doklady an sssr 1965 (Deep heat flow in the Kolnid lowland - reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences )
Heat flow in Oligocene sediments at Szentendre
Subsurface Temperature, Thermal Conductivity, and Heat Flow near Aiken, South Carolina
Studies of the thermal state of the Earth
Terrestrial heat flow in Australia
Studies of the thermal state of the Earth. The 13th paper: Terrestrial Heat Flow in Japan
Measurement of heat flow at the preliminary Mohole site off Mexico
A heat flow through the ocean floor of 2.81 ? 10?6 cal/cm2 sec was measured during the preliminary drilling phase of project Mohole 75 km east of Guadalupe Island in the Pacific. Temperature gradient measurements were made in the hole during the progress of the drilling in the unconsolidated sediments, and the results check well with other measurements made nearby by the probe technique from oceanographic vessels. The high heat flow is consistent with the known structure and tectonic activity of the region.
Heat-flow measurements in the North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean
Twenty measurements of heat flow in the Caribbean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea are described and compared with nearby measurements made by others. Heat-flow measurements in the Caribbean gave values which average about 1.2 to 1.4 ?cal/cm2 sec. East of the Antilles the value found may not be equilibrium heat flow because of past disturbance of the sediment. Values as low as 0.3 ?cal/cm2 sec were found on the flanks of the mid-Atlantic ridge, and values as high as 6.5 ?cal/cm2 sec were found at the crest. In the eastern Atlantic, normal values of about 1.2 …
Ocean-floor heat-flow measurements west of the United States and Baja California
Heat-flow values west of North America range from 0.10-5.79 · 10−6 cal./cm2 sec. Most measurements at the same location repeat reasonably well. Some of the variations appear periodically distributed with distance over long lines, with characteristic “wavelengths” of the variations ranging from about 250 km off Baja California to 1,000 km off northern California. For the most part, the variations appear uninterrupted across the Mendocino fracture zone. High values occur near the coast, three or four times normal north of the Mendocino fault and twice normal in the borderland off southern and Baja California.