Heat Flow and Thermal Structure of the Lithosphere

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 217-251

  Jaupart, C ^a   Mareschal, J C ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Continental geotherm; Craton; Geothermobarometry; Heat flow; Lithospheric thickness; Mantle heat flux; Mantle xenoliths; Oceanic geotherm; Plate model; Radiogenic heat production; Seismic velocity profiles; Thermal boundary layer; Thermal relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349232209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00104-8     Document Type: Chapter

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