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Interpretation of heat flow anomalies 1. Contrasts in heat production
Author(s) -
Simmons Gene
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg005i001p00043
Subject(s) - anomaly (physics) , heat flow , gravity anomaly , flow (mathematics) , physics , thermodynamics , volume (thermodynamics) , heat transfer , gravitation , mechanics , volumetric flow rate , thermal , geophysics , geology , classical mechanics , optics , amplitude , condensed matter physics
A relation between gravimetric and thermal anomalies, Q = F ( A /2π G ρ ), where Q is the rate of heat flow, A is the rate of heat production per unit volume, G is the gravitational constant, ρ is density, and F is the gravitational attraction, is used to obtain theoretical surface heat flow anomalies for bodies from the analogous theoretical gravity anomalies. Results are collected for several geometrical shapes, and the application to digital computation of sources of arbitrary shape is indicated. The same relation may be used to verify that a gravity anomaly and a heat flow anomaly are caused by the same body.