Heat-flow measurements at shot points along the 1978 Saudi Arabia seismic deep-refraction line; Part I, Results of the measurements

Heat-flow measurements at shot points along the 1978 Saudi Arabia seismic deep-refraction line; Part II, Discussion and interpretation

“…Location of the shot points and a generalized geologic map of the area are shown in figure 1. The estimation of heat-flow and heat-generation values and their uncertainties is described in a companion report (Gettings and Showail, 1982); the resulting data are summarized in table 1 and figures 2 and 3. In figure 2, the heat-flow profile has been extended to include a heat-flow measurement from a deep borehole on the coastal plain (Mansiyah I, Girdler, 1970) and marine heat-flow measurements (Girdler and Evans, 1977) in both the shallow-and deep-water areas of the Red Sea in a swath 200 km wide that trends 236° across the Red Sea.…”

Lithospheric composition and thermal structure of the Arabian Shield in Jordan

“…The determined by Förster et al (2007) is at the upper end of range previously measured in Jordan (42-65 ;Galanis et al, 1986). However, it deviates significantly from values reported for the Saudi Arabian part of the shield, outside of the Red Sea rift (36-45 ;Gettings and Showail, 1982). This discrepancy is probably related to the poor data quality that characterizes the heatflow estimates from Saudi Arabia.…”

Mantle earthquakes in recently thinned Neoproterozoic lithosphere: Harrat Lunayyir, Saudi Arabia

“…We tested the sensitivity of our thermal model to a larger initial SHF of 34 mW/m 2 (the best estimate of Gettings & Showail (1982) for measurement #1 is 34 ± 4 mW/m 2 ) ( Fig. 12b), which predicts SHF of 48 mW/m 2 at 0 Myr model time due to the high shallow thermal conductivity.…”