Remarks on the thermal conductivity and heat flow density of the Indian Craton |
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| Authors: | S?awomir Maj |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4;(2) Present address: Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, N2L 3G1 |
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| Abstract: | The virtual or effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of the Indian subcontinental crust model is calculated from geochemical/geothermal
data on the mean radiogenic heat production and on the real thermal conductivity (TC) of crystalline rocks of India. This
ETC, amounting to about 3.45 W/m·K, is 1.4 time greater than the mean real TC value (about 2.5 W/m·K). This is in good agreement
with the empirical relation between the surface heat flow density and the Curie depth for the Indian Craton. |
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