Periodic heat flow in a stratified medium, with application to permafrost problems
By: by Arthur H. Lachenbruch.
Series: Experimental and theoretical geophysics; Geological Survey bulletin -- 1083-A
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Heat -- Transmission.; Frozen ground -- Thermal properties.; Earth temperature.; Geophysics.
Description: A discussion of temperature fluctuations in a stratified medium caused by a periodically varying surface temperature, with special reference to the effects of seasonal temperature variation on gravel fills, the natural active layer and permafrost.
Notes: Three folded plates inserted in volume.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 34).