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The study of the Earth’s internal temperature has a long history stemming from the time of Plato to the present. It has been described by Bullard (1965), completet and summarized in the Table given below. In contrast terrestrial heat-flow density determinations, which give more exact geothermal information about the Earth, were first actually measured by Benfield (1939) about the middle of this century. Since that time worldwide temperature and heat-flow density determinations have increased slowly, but continuously. A status report on the methodology and results of heat-flow density on the worldwide scale was given by Lee (1965) in the Sixties.
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Haenel, R., Rybach, L., Stegena, L. (1988). Introduction. In: Haenel, R., Rybach, L., Stegena, L. (eds) Handbook of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Density Determination. Solid Earth Sciences Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2847-3_1
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