Open AccessOn the shapes of the isogeotherms under mountain ranges in radio-active districts
Publication year - 1910
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1910.0022
Subject(s) - crust , simple (philosophy) , neighbourhood (mathematics) , geology , distribution (mathematics) , remote sensing , meteorology , geography , geophysics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology
The importance attached by geologists to the distribution of temperature within the earth’s crust as a factor in the production of movements of the crust, and in particular in the formation of mountain ranges, has made it necessary to consider if it is possible to determine the distribution of temperature under and in the neighbourhood of a mountain range, by a method more rigid and accurate than that used by Fisher, and more closely following the physical condition of the problem than that used by Thoma. In what follows it will be shown that an accurate solution can be obtained in certain simple cases, even when the soil is radio-active.