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Back To Introduction to Heat Flow
Exploration
Typical Results
In the example of Figure 5, a set of Gulf of Mexico stations'
measured heat flows are plotted as a frequency bar chart.
A generally well-behaved (Gaussian-like) distribution is typically
observed in such a set, with a few outliers that are considered
anomalies. In this sample set, the values are generally lower
than the corrected heat flows of 41-47 mW/m2 obtained by Nagihara
et al (1996). This is expected due to the higher sedimentation
rates in this part of the Gulf of Mexico basin.
Figure 5. Distribution
of measured heat flow values for Gulf of Mexico stations.
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