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There comes a time in the affairs of every organization when we
have to sit down and take stock of where we are and where we want
to go. When the International Heat Flow Committee (as it was first
called), IHFC, was formed in 1963 at the San Francisco
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with Francis Birch as
its first Chairman, the principal purpose was to stimulate work in
the basic aspects of geothermics, particularly the measurement of
terrestrial heat-flow density (HFD) in what were then the
'geothermally underdeveloped' areas of the world. In this, the IHFC
was remarkably successful. By the beginning of the second decade of
our existence, interest in the economic aspects of geothermics was
increasing at a rapid pace and the IHFC served as a conduit for all
aspects of geothermics and, moreover, became the group responsi ble
for collecting data on all types of HFD measurements. In all the
tasks that are undertaken, the IHFC relies on the enthusiasm of its
members and colleagues who devote much of their time to the
important but unglamorous and personally unrewarding tasks that
were asked of them, and we arc fortunate that our parent
institutions are usually quite tolerant of the time spent by their
employees on IHFC work."
Terrestrial Heat Flow and the Lithosphere Structure summarizes
current problems of analyzing related data. The individual chapters
are written by leading scientists in geothermics, and are arranged
in three sections: - General Lithospheric Geothermics - Regional
Lithospheric Geothermics - Worldwide Heat Flow Density Studies.
Emphasis is laid on the interrelations between lithospheric
structure and local heat flow fields.
There comes a time in the affairs of every organization when we
have to sit down and take stock of where we are and where we want
to go. When the International Heat Flow Committee (as it was first
called), IHFC, was formed in 1963 at the San Francisco
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with Francis Birch as
its first Chairman, the principal purpose was to stimulate work in
the basic aspects of geothermics, particularly the measurement of
terrestrial heat-flow density (HFD) in what were then the
'geothermally underdeveloped' areas of the world. In this, the IHFC
was remarkably successful. By the beginning of the second decade of
our existence, interest in the economic aspects of geothermics was
increasing at a rapid pace and the IHFC served as a conduit for all
aspects of geothermics and, moreover, became the group responsi ble
for collecting data on all types of HFD measurements. In all the
tasks that are undertaken, the IHFC relies on the enthusiasm of its
members and colleagues who devote much of their time to the
important but unglamorous and personally unrewarding tasks that
were asked of them, and we arc fortunate that our parent
institutions are usually quite tolerant of the time spent by their
employees on IHFC work."
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