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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 2016 Mar 1;176:295–315. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.10.036

Table 1. Constants used in the thermal modeling.

Term Symbol Value Units Note
Thermal conductivity K 2.1 W m−1 K−1 Hevey and Sanders (2006)
Specific heat capacity Cp 837 J kg−1 K−1 Hevey and Sanders (2006)
Density of OC source rock ρOC 3800 kg m−3 Lodders and Fegley (1998)
Density of CV source rock ρCV 3420 kg m−3 Lodders and Fegley (1998)
Mass fraction of Al in OC source rock 0.0113 Hutchison (2004)
Mass fraction of Al in CV source rock 0.0175 Hutchison (2004)
Thermal diffusivity of OC source rock κOC 6.6 × 10−7 m2 s−1 K/[Cp * ρ]
Thermal diffusivity of CV source rock κCV 7.3 × 10−7 m2 s−1
Ambient disk temperature T0 250–1000 K
26Al decay constant λ 9.5 × 10−7 year−1
26Al decay energy 3.12 MeV Castillo-Rogez et al. (2009)