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Correlation between terrestrial heat flow and thermal conductivity

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The significant correlation coefficient between the terrestial heat flow and thermal conductivity computed from the continental heat flow data byHorai andNur [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.

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  1. K. Horai andA. Nur,Relationship among terrestrial heat flow, thermal conductivity and geothermal gradient, Jour of Geophys. Res.75, No. 11, (1970), 1985–1991.

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  2. P. S. Naidu,Heat flow in random medium: First order theory, Pure and Applied Geophysics,79 (1970/II), 73–84.

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Naidu, P.S. Correlation between terrestrial heat flow and thermal conductivity. PAGEOPH 88, 154–158 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877900

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