Handbook of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Density Determination
with Guidelines and Recommendations of the International Heat Flow Commission
Published on 6. December 2012
XIV, 486 pages
978-94-009-2847-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Fundamentals of Geothermics.- 2.1. Definitions, Standards, Conversions.- 2.2. Equations of Heat Conduction.- 2.3. Equations of Heat Convection.- 2.4. Numerical Methods.- 2.5. Summary of Recommendations.- 2.6. References.- 3. Determination of Virgin Rock Temperatures.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Sensors for Measurements.- 3.3. Measurements of Subsurface Temperatures in Boreholes.- 3.4. Perturbations due to Convection.- 3.5. Data from Holes that are Thermally Perturbed by Drilling Fluids.- 3.6. Data from Boreholes with Hydraulically Driven Water Flows.- 3.7. Measurements of Temperatures in Lake and Oceanic Sediments.- 3.8. Measurements in Mines and Tunnels.- 3.9. Summary of Recommendations.- 3.10. References.- 4. Thermal Properties.- 4.1. Methods for Determining Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Diffusivity.- 4.2. Determination of Heat Production Rate.- 4.3. Opacity - The Concept of Radiative Thermal Conductivity.- 5. Continental Heat-Flow Density.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Determining Continental Heat-Flow Density.- 5.3. Reporting Uncertainties in Heat-Flow Density Determinations.- 5.4. Terrain Effects and Palaeoclimatic Corrections.- 5.5. Groundwater Disturbances.- 5.6. Perturbations due to Free Convection.- 5.7. Summary of Recommendations.- 5.8. References.- 6. Oceanic Heat-Flow Density.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Contemporary Instrumentation.- 6.3. Shipboard Operation.- 6.4. Data Reduction.- 6.5. Sources of Errors.- 6.6. Summary of Recommendations.- 6.7. References.- 7. Geothermal Maps.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. General Statements.- 7.3. Temperature, Temperature Gradient and Heat-Flow Density Maps.- 7.4. Geothermal Resource and Reserve Representation.- 7.5. Summary of Recommendations.- 7.6. References.- 8. Crust and Mantle Geothermics.- 8.1. ThermalRegime of the Lithosphere.- 8.2. References.- 8.3. Downward Continuation.- 8.4. References.- 9. Implications.- 9.1. Geodynamics.- 9.2. Thermal Exploration Methods.- 9.3. Palaeogeothermics.- 9.4. Engineering Applications.- 10. Appendix.- 10.1. Thermal Conductivity.- 10.2. Palaeotemperatures.- 10.3. References.- 10.4. Glossary of Symbols.- 10.5. Computer Programme to Section 4.3.3..- Author Index.
