The thermal conductivity of some Canadian limestones and slate has been measured. The results are in satisfactory agreement with those of other experimenters, but there was evidence of changes in the stone, even at temperatures below 700° F.; this vitiates the value, from a geophysical standpoint, of these and other determinations.
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C. D. Niven (1940) studied this question.