Abstract
dc:description.abstractNine holes in the Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, and Alleghaney Plateau Provinces of Virginia provide heat flow values of 0.87 ± 0.07 mcal/cm² -sec , 7.7 ± 0.5 mcal/cm² -sec, 1.2 ± 0.1 mcal/cm²-sec and 1.4 ± 0.1 mcal/cm² -sec at Poor Mountain (37°02'N, 80°12'W), Hot Springs (38°00'N, 79°50'W), Back Creek (38°14'N, 79°49'W) and Vansant (37°12‘N, 82°06'W) respectively. The value of 0.87 mcal/cm² -sec agrees with Diment's Central Region for the eastern United States. Limited data support a model of moderately deep circulation of meteoric water possibly coupled with the heat generation of buried plutonic rocks to explain the origin of the hot springs in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Geophysics
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Geophysics
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1975
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Perry, Lawrence Dunnington
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-06082010-020335
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42940