大地热流问题远在十七世纪就已引起人们的注意。到六十年代初,板块构造学说的发展推动了热流研究;海洋热流测量的迅速增长,大大扩展了人们对大地热流及海洋地质的知识。可是由于测量技术条件的限制,直到七十年代中期以后,大陆的热流测量才有了明显地增长,从而为研究大陆地质开拓了一条新的途径。现在人们正试图通过热流数据的分 The issue of the heat flow in the earth has drawn much attention in the seventeenth century. By the early 1960s, the development of plate tectonics promoted the study of heat flow; the rapid growth of ocean heat flux measurements greatly expanded people’s knowledge of the geothermal heat flow and marine geology. However, due to the limitations of the measurement technology, it was not until the mid-1970s that the heat flux in the mainland increased significantly, thus opening up a new avenue for studying the geology of the continent. Now people are trying to pass the heat flow data points