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Although on the geological time and space scales the geothermal regime of the Earth is, strictly speaking, both a transient and three dimensional phenomenon, on the global scale by far the most important component of heat transfer is radial. Furthermore, over times of the order of the thermal time constant for the crust, that is a few hundred thousand to a few million years, we consider the thermal regime to be quasi-steady state.
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Powell, W.G., Chapman, D.S., Balling, N., Beck, A.E. (1988). Continental Heat-Flow Density. In: Haenel, R., Rybach, L., Stegena, L. (eds) Handbook of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Density Determination. Solid Earth Sciences Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2847-3_5
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