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Terrestrial heat flow and heat generation in south-west England
Estimating the “Thickness” of the Boulder Batholith, Montana, from Heat-Flow and Heat-Productivity Data
Estimates of minimum thickness of the Boulder batholith, computed using the linear relation between heat flow and heat productivity and assuming constant heat productivity with depth, are highly nonspecific. They can vary between about 3 and 20 km, depending on values of surface-rock heat productivity and values of assumed contribution of nonbatholith heat sources (such as lower crustal and upper mantle) to the measured surface heat flow used in the calculations. Models involving radiogenic heat sources decreasing with depth in the batholith lead to significantly greater estimates of thickness by as much as a factor of two or more. A …
Heat-flow measurements in the East-central Atlantic Ocean and near the Atlantis fracture zone
Issledovanie teplovogo potoka v severo-zapadnoj chasti Tihogo okeana (Heat flow studies in the Northwest Pacific )
Izmerenie teplovogo potoka v zone perehoda ot Aziatskogo materika k Tihomu okeanu (Measurement of heat flow in the transition zone from the Asian continent to the Pacific Ocean )
A brief description of geological and geophysical exploration of the Marysville geothermal area
Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out at the Marysville geothermal area during 1973 and 1974. The area has high heat flow (up to microcalories per square centimeter-second, a negative gravity anomaly, high electrical resistivity, low seismic ground noise, and nearby microseismic activity. Significant magnetic and infrared anomalies are not associated with the geothermal area. The geothermal anomaly occupies the axial portion of a dome in Precambrian sedimentary rocks intruded by Cretaceous and Cenozoic granitic rocks. The results from a 2.4-km-deep test well indicate that the cause of the geothermal anomaly is hydrothermal convection in a Cenozoic intrusive. A …