Planetary Ecologist<p>Earth's internal heat budget (Earth 🌍)</p><p>Earth's internal heat budget is fundamental to the thermal history of the Earth. The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts and comes from two main sources in roughly equal amounts: the radiogenic heat produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantl...</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_internal_heat_budget" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_</span><span class="invisible">internal_heat_budget</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EarthSInternalHeatBudget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthSInternalHeatBudget</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeatTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeatTransfer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeothermalEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeothermalEnergy</span></a></p>