{"id":2350,"date":"2026-02-18T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:37:46","slug":"thermal-properties-of-the-lower-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/2026\/02\/thermal-properties-of-the-lower-crust\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal properties of the lower crust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The temperature field in the Earth&#8217;s crust is one of the least constrained parameters, as there is no direct measurement possible beneath a certain depth, and as there is little data availabe on the properties of the relevant rocks. Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icdp-online.org\/projects\/by-continent\/europe\/dive-italy\/\">DIVE<\/a> drilling project, we could sample, measure and characterize the thermal conductivity and heat production on a wide variety of rocks. These measurements, as the one on the figure below, connect the small-scale, mineral and rock properties, with the large-scale, crustal features. More details on these properties, and on their variability at various scales can be found in our fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geothermics.2025.103564\">article by Lemke et al. (2026)<\/a> published in the journal <em>Geothermics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geothermics.2025.103564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"939\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-2351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2026\/02\/image.png 548w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2026\/02\/image-175x300.png 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 9 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geothermics.2025.103564\">Lemke et al. (2026)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature field in the Earth&#8217;s crust is one of the least constrained parameters, as there is no direct measurement possible beneath a certain depth, and as there is little data availabe on the properties of the relevant rocks. Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}