Skip to main content

AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > phenomena > physical phenomena > energy exchange > heat transfer > heat flow > geothermal heat flow

Preferred term

void:inDataset: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Created: 2025-09-01T09:27:30

Notation: a70b9d8b

geothermal heat flow  

Definition

  • Information El flujo de calor desde el interior de la Tierra por unidad de área y por unidad de tiempo. Es el producto de la conductividad térmica y el gradiente térmico.

    Created: 9/1/25

     (es)
  • Information Flux de chaleur naturel se propageant verticalement, par conduction thermique, de l’intérieur chaud vers la surface froide de la Terre. Il est égal au produit du gradient de température par la conductivité thermique.

    Created: 9/1/25

     (fr)
  • Information Geothermal heat flow is the movement of heat (energy) from the interior of Earth to the surface. The source of most heat comes from the cooling of the Earth’s core and the radioactive heat generation in the upper 20 to 40 km of the Earth’s crust.

    Created: 9/1/25

     (en)

Broader concept

Scope note

  • For geoscience context, as in the transfer of heat from the centre of the Earth through the Earth's crust to the surface, use <c_a70b9d8b> "geothermal heat flow". (en)

Affects

In other languages

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_a70b9d8b

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 9/1/25, last modified 10/27/25