Faster access than browser!
84 relations: Accretion (astrophysics), Acre, Adiabatic process, Advection, Alaska, Carnegie Institution for Science, Climate, Climate change, Continental crust, Convection, Copper, Crust (geology), Crystallization, Decay heat, Deposition (geology), Drill bit, Drilling, Earth, Earth's internal heat budget, Earth's magnetic field, Electric light, Electricity, Engineering, Erosion, Fluid, Friction, Geothermal energy, Geothermal heating, Geothermal power, Gold, Granite, Gravitational binding energy, Half-life, Heat flux, Heat transfer, Heavy metals, Holocene, Hydrothermal circulation, Inner core, Iron, Kelvin, Komatiite, Lithosphere, Mantle (geology), Mantle convection, Mantle plume, Meteorite, Mid-ocean ridge, Milankovitch cycles, Mining, ..., Nickel, Northern Canada, Oceanic crust, Orders of magnitude (energy), Outer core, Pascal (unit), Peridotite, Permafrost, Plate tectonics, Pleistocene, Poland, Polar ice cap, Potassium, Radioactive decay, Room temperature, S-wave, Siberia, Solid, South Africa, Subsidence, Suwałki, TauTona Mine, Tectonic uplift, Tectonics, Temperature, Thermal conduction, Thermal conductivity, Thorium, Tidal force, Tropics, Turbine, Uranium, Uranium-235, Watt. Expand index (34 more) »
Accretion (astrophysics)
In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, in an accretion disk.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Accretion (astrophysics) · See more »
Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Acre · See more »
Adiabatic process
In thermodynamics, an adiabatic process is one that occurs without transfer of heat or matter between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Adiabatic process · See more »
Advection
In the field of physics, engineering, and earth sciences, advection is the transport of a substance by bulk motion.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Advection · See more »
Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Alaska · See more »
Carnegie Institution for Science
The Carnegie Institution of Washington (the organization's legal name), known also for public purposes as the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), is an organization in the United States established to fund and perform scientific research.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Carnegie Institution for Science · See more »
Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Climate · See more »
Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Climate change · See more »
Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Continental crust · See more »
Convection
Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of molecules within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Convection · See more »
Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Copper · See more »
Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Crust (geology) · See more »
Crystallization
Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process by which a solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Crystallization · See more »
Decay heat
Decay heat is the heat released as a result of radioactive decay.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Decay heat · See more »
Deposition (geology)
Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Deposition (geology) · See more »
Drill bit
Drill bits are cutting tools used to remove material to create holes, almost always of circular cross-section.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Drill bit · See more »
Drilling
Drilling is a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut a hole of circular cross-section in solid materials.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Drilling · See more »
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Earth · See more »
Earth's internal heat budget
Earth's internal heat budget is fundamental to the thermal history of the Earth.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Earth's internal heat budget · See more »
Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth's interior out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Earth's magnetic field · See more »
Electric light
An electric light is a device that produces visible light from electric current.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Electric light · See more »
Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Electricity · See more »
Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Engineering · See more »
Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Erosion · See more »
Fluid
In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Fluid · See more »
Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Friction · See more »
Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Geothermal energy · See more »
Geothermal heating
Geothermal heating is the direct use of geothermal energy for heating some applications.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Geothermal heating · See more »
Geothermal power
Geothermal power is power generated by geothermal energy.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Geothermal power · See more »
Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Gold · See more »
Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Granite · See more »
Gravitational binding energy
A gravitational binding energy is the minimum energy that must be added to a system for the system to cease being in a gravitationally bound state.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Gravitational binding energy · See more »
Half-life
Half-life (symbol t1⁄2) is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Half-life · See more »
Heat flux
Heat flux or thermal flux, sometimes also referred to as heat flux density or heat flow rate intensity is a flow of energy per unit of area per unit of time.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Heat flux · See more »
Heat transfer
Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Heat transfer · See more »
Heavy metals
Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Heavy metals · See more »
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Holocene · See more »
Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. and θέρμη, heat). Hydrothermal circulation occurs most often in the vicinity of sources of heat within the Earth's crust.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Hydrothermal circulation · See more »
Inner core
The Earth's inner core is the Earth's innermost part.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Inner core · See more »
Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Iron · See more »
Kelvin
The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Kelvin · See more »
Komatiite
Komatiite is a type of ultramafic mantle-derived volcanic rock.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Komatiite · See more »
Lithosphere
A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Lithosphere · See more »
Mantle (geology)
The mantle is a layer inside a terrestrial planet and some other rocky planetary bodies.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Mantle (geology) · See more »
Mantle convection
Mantle convection is the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the Earth to the surface.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Mantle convection · See more »
Mantle plume
A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, first proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Mantle plume · See more »
Meteorite
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Meteorite · See more »
Mid-ocean ridge
A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Mid-ocean ridge · See more »
Milankovitch cycles
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Milankovitch cycles · See more »
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Mining · See more »
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Nickel · See more »
Northern Canada
Northern Canada, colloquially the North, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Northern Canada · See more »
Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Oceanic crust · See more »
Orders of magnitude (energy)
This list compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Orders of magnitude (energy) · See more »
Outer core
The outer core of the Earth is a fluid layer about thick and composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Outer core · See more »
Pascal (unit)
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and ultimate tensile strength.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Pascal (unit) · See more »
Peridotite
Peridotite is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the minerals olivine and pyroxene.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Peridotite · See more »
Permafrost
In geology, permafrost is ground, including rock or (cryotic) soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Permafrost · See more »
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Plate tectonics · See more »
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Pleistocene · See more »
Poland
Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Poland · See more »
Polar ice cap
A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Polar ice cap · See more »
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Potassium · See more »
Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Radioactive decay · See more »
Room temperature
Colloquially, room temperature is the range of air temperatures that most people prefer for indoor settings, which feel comfortable when wearing typical indoor clothing.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Room temperature · See more »
S-wave
In seismology, S-waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called an elastic S-wave) are a type of elastic wave, and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and S-wave · See more »
Siberia
Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Siberia · See more »
Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Solid · See more »
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and South Africa · See more »
Subsidence
Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Subsidence · See more »
Suwałki
Suwałki (Suvalkai, סואוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with 69,210 inhabitants (2011).
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Suwałki · See more »
TauTona Mine
The TauTona Mine or Western Deep No.3 Shaft,http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/TAUTONA_(WESTERN_DEEP_NO.3_SHAFT).html is a gold mine in South Africa.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and TauTona Mine · See more »
Tectonic uplift
Tectonic uplift is the portion of the total geologic uplift of the mean Earth surface that is not attributable to an isostatic response to unloading.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Tectonic uplift · See more »
Tectonics
Tectonics is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Tectonics · See more »
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Temperature · See more »
Thermal conduction
Thermal conduction is the transfer of heat (internal energy) by microscopic collisions of particles and movement of electrons within a body.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Thermal conduction · See more »
Thermal conductivity
Thermal conductivity (often denoted k, λ, or κ) is the property of a material to conduct heat.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Thermal conductivity · See more »
Thorium
Thorium is a weakly radioactive metallic chemical element with symbol Th and atomic number 90.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Thorium · See more »
Tidal force
The tidal force is an apparent force that stretches a body towards the center of mass of another body due to a gradient (difference in strength) in gravitational field from the other body; it is responsible for the diverse phenomena, including tides, tidal locking, breaking apart of celestial bodies and formation of ring systems within Roche limit, and in extreme cases, spaghettification of objects.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Tidal force · See more »
Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Tropics · See more »
Turbine
A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, related to the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Turbine · See more »
Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Uranium · See more »
Uranium-235
Uranium-235 (235U) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Uranium-235 · See more »
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
New!!: Geothermal gradient and Watt · See more »
Redirects here:
Geotherm, Geothermal, Geothermal (geology), Geothermal gradients, Geothermic gradient, Geothermy, Thermogeology.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient
