Open AccessThermal Signatures of Heat Transfer Processes in the Earth's Crust
Author(s) -
Deming David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2002eo000146
Subject(s) - crust , geology , borehole , advection , geophysics , heat transfer , thermal , geothermal gradient , meteorology , paleontology , geography , mechanics , physics , thermodynamics
Thermal Signatures of Heat Transfer Processes in the Earth's Crust is a revised version of the author's D.Sc. thesis. It is a relatively short paperback that will mainly be of interest to those specializing in the study of terrestrial heat flow. The book is divided into four sections. The first is a brief introduction that argues for the importance and relevance of thermal methods to geological problems and the difficulties and complications of interpreting thermal data. The second section is titled “Spatial and Temporal Scales for Heat Transport Processes.” After a brief tutorial on diffusion, two case studies are presented that involve the reconstruction of climate histories from inversion of borehole temperature logs. The analyses contain some beautiful color igures. The third section is titled “Identification of Diffusion and Advection: Two Case Studies…” and discusses analysis of temperature logs from the 9‐km‐deep KTB drill hole in Germany, and the 12‐km‐deep borehole on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. The fourth section is short, and it analyzes the “influence of an intrusion in the lower crust on the thermal regime in the upper crust.”