On the shapes of the isogeotherms under mountain ranges in radio-active districts

Abstract

The importance attached by geologists to the distribution of temperature within the earth’s crust as a factor in the production of movements of the crust, and in particular in the formation of mountain ranges, has made it necessary to consider if it is possible to determine the distribution of temperature under and in the neighbourhood of a mountain range, by a method more rigid and accurate than that used by Fisher, and more closely following the physical condition of the problem than that used by Thoma. In what follows it will be shown that an accurate solution can be obtained in certain simple cases, even when the soil is radio-active.