Terrestrial Heat Flow through Salt-Marsh Peat
- 28 May 1965
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 148 (3674) , 1219-1220
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.148.3674.1219
Abstract
Two measurements of the temperature gradient in salt-marsh peat made at an interval of ½ year permit the upward flow of heat to be estimated as 1.37 × 10 -6 cal cm -2 sec -1 . This value corresponds closely to the average terrestrial heat flow, obtained in mines and wells.Keywords
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