The forgotten component of sub-glacial heat flow: upper crustal heat production and resultant total heat flux on the Antarctic Peninsula
Seismic and magnetic geophysical methods have both been employed to produce estimates of heat flux beneaththe Antarctic ice sheet. However, both methods use a homogeneous upper crustal model despite the variableconcentration of heat producing elements within its composite lithologies.Using geologica...
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Format: | Conference Object |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus GmbH
2017
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Online Access: | http://ecite.utas.edu.au/116867 |
Summary: | Seismic and magnetic geophysical methods have both been employed to produce estimates of heat flux beneaththe Antarctic ice sheet. However, both methods use a homogeneous upper crustal model despite the variableconcentration of heat producing elements within its composite lithologies.Using geological and geochemical datasets from the Antarctic Peninsula we have developed a new methodologyfor incorporating upper crustal heat production in heat flux models and have shown the greater variability thisintroduces in to estimates of crustal heat flux, with implications for glaciological modelling. |
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