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Geothermal Temperature Gradient

Created by Arthur Aslanyan (Nafta College), last modified on Nov 10, 2022

A measure of Geothermal Temperature Gradient along the True Vertical Direction towards Earth's centre:

(1)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle G_T = \frac{dT}{dz}\end{array}$

where

$\begin{array}{l}z\end{array}$

True Vertical Depth (TVD)

The typical range is $\begin{array}{l}G_T = 0.021 \div 0.041\end{array}$ $\begin{array}{l}^\circ \rm{C}\end{array}$ / $\begin{array}{l}\rm{m}\end{array}$ with world average being $\begin{array}{l}G_T = 0.025\end{array}$ $\begin{array}{l}^\circ \rm{C}\end{array}$ / $\begin{array}{l}\rm{m}\end{array}$ .

See Also

Geology / Geothermal Temperature Profile

[ Petroleum Geology ][ Geological Model (GM) ]

[ True Vertical Direction ][ Geothermal Temperature Profile @model ]

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