Global Heat Flow Data Compilation and Spherical Harmonic Analysis

此补助金支持编译和球谐函数 热流测量的全球系综分析 出版于1986年底。 上一次全面 出版的汇编是在十多年前完成的， 包括大约5500个数据集的当前大小被估计 超过15，000个值，进行了新的汇编和分析， 势在必行 热流构成了宇宙中最大的能流 地球，是一个一阶约束条件， 在几百公里外的温度 星球 因此，热流是地球物理学中的一个重要参数。 和区域地球动力学研究，火成岩和变质 岩石成因、古地磁和年代学、沉积 诊断和碳氢化合物成熟，以及许多其他 温度依赖或热激活过程 地球

This grant supports the compilation and spherical harmonic analysis of the global ensemble of heat flow measurements published through the end of 1986. The last comprehensive published compilation was made more than a decade earlier, comprising some 5500 the present size of the data set is estimated to exceed 15,000 values, making a new compilation and analysis imperative. Heat flow constitutes the largest energy flux within the earth, and is a first order constraint in predicting temperatures within the outer few hundred kilometers of the planet. Heat flow is, therefore, an important parameter in global and regional geodynamic studies, igneous and metamorphic petrogenesis, paleomagnetism and geochronology, sedimentary diagnosis and hydrocarbon maturation, and a host of other temperature dependent or thermally activated processes within the earth.