Simulation of heat transfer at the Kola deep-hole site: implications for advection, heat refraction and palaeoclimatic effects

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Kukkonen, Ilmo T., Clauser, Christoph
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1994
• Subjects: Articles; Kola Peninsula; Pechenga; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/116/2/409; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1994.tb01806.x

The drill hole SG-3, 12 261 m deep in the Pechenga-Zapolyarny area, Kola Peninsula, Russia, is currently the deepest drill hole in the world. Geothermal measurements in the hole reveal a considerable variation (30–68 mW m−2) with depth in the vertical component of heat-flow density (HFD). We simulat...