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Early geophysical papers of the Early geophysical papers of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists . earlygeophysical00soci Year: 1947 ââââ/00°f7 isotherm*/ surface â¢7bp of' Lower- Srovvn zone Fig. 4. Long Beach Dome, Los Angeles County, California. Fig. In general, the isothermal surfaces are flatter than the surfaces of the strata and the flatness increases with diminishing depth until a point is reached near the surface of the ground at which the isothermal surfaces tend more or less to conform to surface topography. As the effects of surface tfiOO \ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% £â â {sf&V^&s^ceA^j^^ tture fl/-_ g;^^^ 8 _L J_ Fig. 5. Cross-section of Salt Creek Dome, Wyoming. topography, however, are practically negligible in this field, we must look to other causes for an explanation of the marked rise of the thermal surfaces as they pass over the dome. The Long Beach dome4 presents a problem in which surface topography is * W. T. Thorn, Jr., Relation of earth temperatures to burried hills and anticlinal folds. Economic Geology 20, 524-530 (1925). 4 A. J. Carlson, Geothermal variations in oil fields of Los Angeles Basin, California. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 14, 997-1011 (1930); Geothermal conditions in oil producing areas of California. Am. Petroleum Institute, Production Bull. No. 205, 109-139 (1930). 184
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