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Thermal conductivity K is an important physical quantity in the transport of heat. It both controls temperature gradients in individual layers of the earth’s crust under stationary conditions and determines the time scale for transient processes such as the cooling of intrusive bodies.
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Buntebarth, G. (1984). Thermal Properties of Common Rocks. In: Geothermics. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69323-6_3
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