Geothermal regime in the Qaidam basin, northeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Geological Magazine

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 707-719

  Qiu, Nansheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Heat production; Qaidam basin; Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Thermal conductivity; Thermal regime

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HEAT FLOW DISTRIBUTION; HEAT PRODUCTION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL REGIMES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HEAT FLOW; HEAT PRODUCTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 1342308674     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756803008136     Document Type: Article

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