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Temperature is one of the most important physical properties of the earth. It is both spacially variable and time-dependent, on a variety of time scales, from the variation of surface temperature in the course of a year to the thermal evolution of the entire planet, which takes billions of years.
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Buntebarth, G. (1984). Physical Basis of Heat Transfer. In: Geothermics. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69323-6_2
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