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Lees's topographic correction for a simple idealized hill is discussed and extended to a monoclinal structure. It is valuable as giving very simply the order of magnitude of the correction. A number of new measurements of temperature in Tasmanian boreholes has been made and the previous rather high value of over 2μ cal/cm2 sec for the heat flux has been confirmed. The variation of thermal conductivity through the thickness of a differentiated tholeiite sheet has been measured and found to be in reasonably good agreement with values calculated from chemical and modal analyses.
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Jaeger, J.C., Sass, J.H. Lees's topographic correction in heat flow and the geothermal flux in Tasmania. Geofisica Pura e Applicata 54, 53–63 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01988254
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