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Hotspot Project: The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project Initial Report
The Snake River volcanic province (SRP) overlies a thermal anomaly that extends deep into the mantle; it represents one of the highest heat flow provinces in North America. The primary goal of this project is to evaluate geothermal potential in three distinct settings: (1) Kimama site: inferred high sub-aquifer geothermal gradient associated with the intrusion of mafic magmas, (2) Kimberly site: a valley-margin setting where surface heat flow may be driven by the up-flow of hot fluids along buried caldera ring-fault complexes, and (3) Mountain Home site: a more traditional fault-bounded basin with thick sedimentary cover. In-depth studies continue at all three sites, complemented by high-resolution gravity, magnetic, and seismic surveys, and by downhole geophysical logging.
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "019:20" ] |
|---|---|
| dataQuality | true |
| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/6501 |
| issued | 2012-01-01T07:00:00Z |
| landingPage | https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/127 |
| programCode |
[ "019:006" ] |
| projectLead | Mark Ziegenbein |
| projectNumber | EE0002848 |
| projectTitle | Recovery Act: The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project: Innovative Approaches to Geothermal Exploration |
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