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NATURE reproduces the results obtained by Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., and J. R. Erskine Murray, a paper read at the Royal Society, May 30, “On the Temperature Variation of the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks.” These gentlemen arrived at the following results: “(§ 13).…that for slate with lines of fluor parallel to cleavage planes, the mean conductivity in the range from 123° C. to 202° C. is 91 per cent. of the mean conductivity in the range from 50° C. to 123° C., and for granite the mean conductivity in the range from 145° C. to 214° C. is 88 per cent. of the mean conductivity in the range from 81° C. to 145° C.”
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WEBER, R. On the Temperature Variation of the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks. Nature 52, 458–459 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052458d0
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