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Correlation between terrestrial heat flow and thermal conductivity

Naidu, PS (1971) Correlation between terrestrial heat flow and thermal conductivity. In: Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH, 88 (1). pp. 154-158.

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Abstract

The significant correlation coefficient between the terrestial heat flow and thermal conductivity computed from the continental heat flow data by Horai and Nur [1]2) may be explained as a natural consequence of terrestrial heat flow through a random medium. The theory predicts a value of 0.40 for the correlation coefficient. A simple statistical test shows that the majority of the computed coefficients belong to the statistical population whose mean is equal to the theoretical correlation coefficient. There are, however, a few observations of unsually high correlation coefficient which cannot be explained by the above hypothesis.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH
Publisher: Springer
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2010 08:40
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 06:08
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/28325

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