Constraints on Crustal Heat Production from Heat Flow Data

Treatise on Geochemistry

Volumn 3-9, Issue , 2003, Pages 65-84

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUNTAINS; GEOLOGY; HEAT TRANSFER; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTALS; FLOW DATA; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HEAT PRODUCTION; HEAT-FLOW; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; KEY ISSUES; THERMAL REGIMES; URANIUM CONCENTRATION;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 84942430987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/03017-6     Document Type: Chapter

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