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Distribution of heat flow and radioactive heat generation in northern Mexico
Twenty-five new heat flow measurements from northern Mexico range from 0.6 HFU (1 HFU = 1 ?cal/cm2s = 41.8 mW/m2) at Los Plomosas, Chihuahua, to 4.2 HFU about 30 km east of Mazatlan, Sinaloa. The new values, in conjunction with previous data, confirm the Baja peninsula as an area of low to normal heat flow and demonstrate an irregular decrease of heat flow eastward from the Gulf of California across the Sierra Madre Occidental and a separate pattern of decreasing heat flow eastward from the Central Plateau across the Sierra Madre Oriental. An area of high heat flow immediately east …
Terrestrial heat flow values for some tectonic units in Romania (Valori ale fluxului termic al Pamintului in unele unitati tectonice din R.S. Romania)
Premières estimations du flux de chaleur dans le Massif Armoricain
Compilation of eleven new heat flow measurements on the Japanese Islands
Le flux de chaleur en France, détermination et synthèse
Heat flow measurements in the Ririwai Ring Complex, Nigeria
The result of some temperature gradient measurements in available boreholes, located in the centre of the Nigerian Ririwai complex gave a heat flow of 0.92 ± 0.04 hfu. This result agrees with that of the worldwide averages for Precambrian shield areas but compared with the mean for post orogenic provinces elsewhere, this result is perhaps anomalously low. An attempt to explain this result indicates that detailed heat-flow observations over ring complexes might lead to interesting conclusions concerning the origin and emplacement of such complexes.