| Abstract: | Several high-resolution temperature logs were made in each of 21 drillholes and a total of 601 thermal conductivity measurements were made on drill cuttings and cores. Near-surface heat flow (??20%) is inversely correlated with elevation and ranges from a low of 27 mW/m2 in the foothills of the Brooks Range in the south, to a high of 90 mW/m2 near the north coast. Subsurface temperatures and thermal gradients estimated from corrected BHTs are similarly much higher on the coastal plain than in the foothills province to the south. Significant east-west variation in heat flow and subsurface temperature is also observed; higher heat flow and temperature coincide with higher basement topography. The observed thermal pattern is consistent with forced convection by a topographically driven ground-water flow system. Average ground-water (Darcy) velocity in the postulated flow system is estimated to be of the order of 0.1 m/yr; the effective basin-scale permeability is estimated to be of the order of 10-14 m2. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Deming, D.; Sass, J. H.; Lachenbruch, A. H.; De Rito, R. F. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Heat flow and subsurface temperature as evidence for basin-scale ground-water flow, North Slope of Alaska; 1992; Article; Journal; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Deming, D.; Sass, J. H.; Lachenbruch, A. H.; De Rito, R. F. |
| Citation Start Page: | 528 |
| Citation Volume: | 104 |
| Citation Year: | 1992 |
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| Text: | Heat flow and subsurface temperature as evidence for basin-scale ground-water flow, North Slope of Alaska; 1992; Article; Journal; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Deming, D.; Sass, J. H.; Lachenbruch, A. H.; De Rito, R. F. |
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| Date Other: | Wed, 1 Jan 1992 00:00 -0600 |
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