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    New heat flow values from Virginia
    Perry, Lawrence Dunnington (Virginia Tech, 1975)
    Nine holes in the Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, and Alleghaney Plateau Provinces of Virginia provide heat flow values of 0.87 ± 0.07 mcal/cm² -sec , 7.7 ± 0.5 mcal/cm² -sec, 1.2 ± 0.1 mcal/cm²-sec and 1.4 ± 0.1 mcal/cm² -sec at Poor Mountain (37°02'N, 80°12'W), Hot Springs (38°00'N, 79°50'W), Back Creek (38°14'N, 79°49'W) and Vansant (37°12‘N, 82°06'W) respectively. The value of 0.87 mcal/cm² -sec agrees with Diment's Central Region for the eastern United States. Limited data support a model of moderately deep circulation of meteoric water possibly coupled with the heat generation of buried plutonic rocks to explain the origin of the hot springs in Hot Springs, Virginia.