Handbook of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Density Determination: with Guidelines and Recommendations of the International Heat Flow Commission

There comes a time in the affairs of every organization when we have to sit down and take sk of where we are and where we want to go. When the International Heat Flow Committee (as it was first called), IHFC, was formed in 1963 at the San Francisco International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with Francis Birch as its first Chairman, the principal purpose was to stimulate work in the basic aspects of geothermics, particularly the measurement of terrestrial heat-flow density (HFD) in what w...