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Geothermal gradient, an Uncommon card
Geothermal gradient is the rate of change in temperature with respect to increasing depth in Earth's interior.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As a general rule, the crust temperature rises with depth due to the heat flow from the much hotter mantle, away from tectonic plate boundaries, temperature rises with depth at a rate of about 25–30 °C/km near the surface in the continental crust.
- However, in some cases the temperature may drop with increasing depth, especially near the surface, a phenomenon known as inverse or negative geothermal gradient.
- The effects of weather and climate are shallow, only reaching a depth of roughly 10–20 m.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Geothermal gradient article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Geothermal gradient (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Karla Panchuk (2018), modified after Steven Earle (2016)., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.


