Thermal Signatures of Heat Transfer Processes in the Earth's Crust

• Main Author: Clauser, Christoph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 85
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Geology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Oceanography.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Sciences.

This book deals with the signatures left by geodynamic proceses in the temperature field of the Earth's crust. First, it introduces briefly the established, indirect methods for interpreting the present termperature field and methods for reconstructing the thermal fields of the geological past....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Indicators of past and present thermal conditions
• Spatial and temporal scales for heat transport processes
• Identification of diffusion and advection: Two case studies from the deepest basement drill holes, the Kola and KTB deep boreholes
• Recognizing deep underground processes: Influence of an intrusion in the lower crust on the thermal regime in the upper Crust.