OCEANS AND CONTINENTS - SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE MECHANISMS OF HEAT-LOSS

The principal objective of this paper is to present a simple and self-consistent review of the basic physical processes controlling heat loss from the earth. We give a short summary of the oceanic and continental data and compare and contrast the respective mechanisms of heat loss. In the oceans we...

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Main Authors: Sclater, J, Parsons, B, Jaupart, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1981