Citation:

PANGAEA.804962

Name: Component parts of the World Heat Flow Data Collection
Published: 1991
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Related to:

International Heat Flow Commission, I H F C (2012): Global Heat Flow Database. The Global Heat Flow Database of the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC), University of North Dakota, USA; (data copied, 2012-10), https://ihfc-iugg.org/products/global-heat-flow-database/data

Lesquer, A; Villeneuve, J C; Bronner, G (1991): Heat flow data from the western margin of the West African craton (Mauritania). Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 66(3-4), 320-329, https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(91)90087-X

Further details:

Jessop, Alan M; Hobart, Michael A; Sclater, John G (1976): The World Heat Flow Data Collection - 1975. Geological Survey of Canada, Earth Physics Branch, Geothermal Series, 5, 10 pp, hdl:10013/epic.40176.d002

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 21.507560 * Median Longitude: -12.973968 * South-bound Latitude: 17.990000 * West-bound Longitude: -15.250000 * North-bound Latitude: 22.993600 * East-bound Longitude: -12.050500

Minimum ELEVATION: 15 m a.s.l. * Maximum ELEVATION: 429 m a.s.l.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Area/locality	Area		Lesquer, A
2	Sample, optional label/labor no	Lab no		Lesquer, A
3	LATITUDE	Latitude			Geocode
4	LONGITUDE	Longitude			Geocode
5	ELEVATION	Elevation	m a.s.l.		Geocode
6	Depth, top/min	Depth top	m	Lesquer, A	Minimum depth
7	Depth, bottom/max	Depth bot	m	Lesquer, A	Maximum depth
8	Temperature gradient	T grad	mK/m	Lesquer, A
9	Conductivity, average	Cond average	W/m K	Lesquer, A
10	Heat flow	HF	mW/m²	Lesquer, A
11	Method comment	Method comm		Lesquer, A

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

174 data points

Data

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1 Area	2 Lab no	3 Latitude	4 Longitude	5 Elevation [m a.s.l.]	6 Depth top [m]	7 Depth bot [m]	8 T grad [mK/m]	9 Cond average [W/m K]	10 HF [mW/m²]	11 Method comm
Mauritania	Atar AMDER	20.4800	-13.0300	240	20	200	28	2.1	60
Mauritania	Atar SOUEIGUYA	20.4800	-13.0300	200	85	100	13	1.8	24
Mauritania	Atar SOUEIGUYA	20.4800	-13.0300	200	20	85	5
Mauritania	Idini BM45	17.9900	-15.2500	30	50	90	28	2.5	70
Mauritania	Idini F2	17.9900	-15.2500	15	40	80	22	2.4	52
Mauritania	Idini F3	17.9900	-15.2500	15	38	84	24	2.6	62
Mauritania	Idini F4	17.9900	-15.2500	15	45	90	22	2.6	58
Mauritania	Idini SE4	17.9900	-15.2500	15	40	110	22	2.3	51
Mauritania	Zouerate AOC5	22.5524	-12.3305	327	70	115	14	3.7	53
Mauritania	Zouerate AOC5	22.5524	-12.3305	327	115	150	19	2.7	51
Mauritania	Zouerate BLOC4	22.6306	-12.4422	429	60	140	7	7.0	49
Mauritania	Zouerate BLOC5	22.6561	-12.4407	403	90	170	9	7.0	63	borehole
Mauritania	Zouerate BLOC8	22.6115	-12.4462	403	90	230	9	7.0	63
Mauritania	Zouerate CHROC1	22.6279	-12.4918	420	40	11	7	7.0	49
Mauritania	Zouerate CHROC3	22.6297	-12.4713	420	50	165	7	7.0	49
Mauritania	Zouerate GOE1	22.6152	-12.3785	413	130	195	15	3.4	51
Mauritania	Zouerate GOE1	22.6152	-12.3785	413	90	130	8	4.7	38
Mauritania	Zouerate KHOC4b	22.5870	-12.4532	360	140	190	7	5.0	35
Mauritania	Zouerate KHOC4b	22.5870	-12.4532	360	50	115	7	4.7	33
Mauritania	Zouerate TSOP17	22.8635	-12.0725	330	40	95	21	2.7	57
Mauritania	Zouerate TSOP18	22.8635	-12.0725		40	100	20	2.7	54
Mauritania	Zouerate WS18	22.9936	-12.0733	360	80	110	11	7.0	77
Mauritania	Zouerate WS18	22.9936	-12.0733	360	40	80	7	9.5	66
Mauritania	Zouerate WS3	22.9599	-12.0505	380	40	80	16	5.0	80
Mauritania	Zouerate WS3	22.9599	-12.0505	380	80	110	8	9.5	76