It temperature measurements are made at various depths in the earth's crust it is usually found that the temperatures of the rocks increase with depth. Since rocks have finite conductivities it follows that a definite quantity of heat travels upwards through the crust. This quantity of heat flowing up across unit area of surface in unit time is called the terrestial heat flow. The amount of this heat flow and the areal distribution of these values have an important bearing on a number of problems involving the physical nature of the earth and its history. Unfortunately, relatively few measurements of the heat flow have been made.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113372 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Doig, Ronald. P. |
| Contributors | Saull, V. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Earth Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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