Transient thermal effects below complex topographies

Tectonophysics

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 311-324

  Kohl, Thomas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heat flow; KTB project; Palaeoclimatic temperature signal; Temperature inversion; Topography

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLOW; PALEOCLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

GERMANY;

EID: 0033587204     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00063-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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