Handbook of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Density Determination

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • R. Haenel, L. Rybach, L. Stegena

   Pages 1-7

3. Fundamentals of Geothermics

   • R. Haenel, L. Rybach, L. Stegena

   Pages 9-57

4. Determination of Virgin Rock Temperatures

   • A. E. Beck, N. Balling

   Pages 59-85

5. Thermal Properties

   • A. E. Beck

   Pages 87-165

6. Continental Heat-Flow Density

   • W. G. Powell, D. S. Chapman, N. Balling, A. E. Beck

   Pages 167-222

7. Oceanic Heat-Flow Density

   • Earl E. Davis

   Pages 223-260

8. Geothermal Maps

   • V. Čermák, R. Haenel

   Pages 261-300

9. Crust and Mantle Geothermics

   • H. N. Pollack, J. H. Sass, D. Stromeyer

   Pages 301-315

10. Implications

    • S. Uyeda, R. Haenel, F. Mongelli, L. Stegena, G. Delisle

    Pages 317-448

11. Appendix

    • G. Zoth, R. Haenel

    Pages 449-468

12. Back Matter

    Pages 469-486

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There comes a time in the affairs of every organization when we have to sit down and take stock of where we are and where we want to go. When the International Heat Flow Committee (as it was first called), IHFC, was formed in 1963 at the San Francisco International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with Francis Birch as its first Chairman, the principal purpose was to stimulate work in the basic aspects of geothermics, particularly the measurement of terrestrial heat-flow density (HFD) in what were then the 'geothermally underdeveloped' areas of the world. In this, the IHFC was remarkably successful. By the beginning of the second decade of our existence, interest in the economic aspects of geothermics was increasing at a rapid pace and the IHFC served as a conduit for all aspects of geothermics and, moreover, became the group responsi­ ble for collecting data on all types of HFD measurements. In all the tasks that are undertaken, the IHFC relies on the enthusiasm of its members and colleagues who devote much of their time to the important but unglamorous and personally unrewarding tasks that were asked of them, and we arc fortunate that our parent institutions are usually quite tolerant of the time spent by their employees on IHFC work.

• fault
• geodesy
• geodynamics
• geophysics
• transform fault

• Department of Geophysics, Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany

  R. Haenel

• Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  L. Rybach

• Department of Environmental Physics, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

  L. Stegena

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