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Heat-producing Elements

Heat-Producing Elements is a geochemical construct denoting a class of radioactive isotopes, primarily uranium, thorium, and potassium-40, whose intrinsic property of spontaneous decay generates thermal energy within planetary interiors, thereby fundamentally influencing the thermal evolution of terrestrial bodies.

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Heat generation of plutonic rocks and continental heat flow provinces

Robert F. Roy, David Blackwell, Francis Birch · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1968 · 563 citations

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Crustal temperature and heat production: Implications of the linear heat-flow relation

Arthur H. Lachenbruch · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1970 · 556 citations

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THE COSMIC ABUNDANCES OF POTASSIUM, URANIUM, AND THORIUM AND THE HEAT BALANCES OF THE EARTH, THE MOON, AND MARS

Harold C. Urey · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1955 · 382 citations · Full text

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Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

Jun Korenaga · Reviews of Geophysics · 2008 · 371 citations

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Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang’e-5

Xiaochao Che, A. A. Nemchin, Dunyi Liu et al. · Science · 2021 · 340 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. SM
    Sandra McLaren

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    5 publications · 179 citations

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  2. ME
    M. E. Lipschutz

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    5 publications · 250 citations

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  3. MI
    Mohammed Ikramuddin

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    3 publications · 177 citations

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  4. MA
    M. A. Wieczorek

    Institut de physique du globe de Paris, France

    3 publications · 422 citations

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  5. GF
    G. F. Herzog

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    3 publications · 185 citations

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Institutions

301

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    38 publications

    4.3K citations

  2. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    24 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    586 citations

  4. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    2.5K citations

  5. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. Institut de physique du globe de Paris

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    22 publications

    2.1K citations

  7. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    1K citations

  8. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

    17 publications · 901 citations

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  2. Science

    14 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 8 publications · 885 citations

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  4. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    7 publications · 958 citations

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  5. Tectonophysics

    6 publications · 138 citations

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