Thermal properties of the AND-2A borehole in the southern Victoria Land Basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1324-1330

  Schroder H ^a   Paulsen, T ^b   Wonik, T ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; COUNTRY ROCK; DEEP DRILLING; HEAT FLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VICTORIA LAND BASIN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84858777568     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00690.1     Document Type: Article

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