Heat production in granitic rocks: Global analysis based on a new data compilation GRANITE2017

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• heat production 100%
• granite 63%
• Proterozoic 62%
• rock 38%
• Archean 37%
• continental crust 32%
• analysis 21%
• thermal regime 15%
• emplacement 11%
• planetary evolution 10%
• mantle 9%
• radioactive decay 8%
• continental lithosphere 8%
• geological time 7%
• supercontinent 7%
• plate motion 7%
• heat source 7%
• plate tectonics 7%
• upper crust 6%
• heat flow 6%
• lower crust 6%
• lithosphere 6%
• statistical analysis 5%
• crust 5%
• anomaly 4%
• modeling 2%
• distribution 2%
• parameter 2%