Heat generation and transport in the Earth / Claude Jaupart, Jean-Claude Mareschal.
"Heat provides the energy that drives almost all geological phenomena and sets the temperature at which these phenomena operate. This book explains the key physical principles of heat transport with simple physical arguments and scaling laws that allow quantitative evaluation of heat flux and c...
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Table of Contents:
- Historical notes
- Internal structure of the Earth
- Basic equations
- Heat conduction
- Heat transport by convection
- Thermal structure of the oceanic lithosphere
- Thermal structure of the continental lithosphere
- Global energy budget
- Mantle convection
- Thermal evolution of the Earth
- Magmatic and volcanic systems
- Environmental problems
- New and old challenges.