Carbonate Deposition

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Carbonate Deposition:

The formation of carbonate minerals due to carbonate precipitating out of solution. Geothermal fluids often contain carbonates and as the temperature of the fluids cool when they reach the surface carbonate minerals precipitate out of the solution.

Other definitions:Wikipedia Reegle

Relict Geothermal Features

Typical list of modern geothermal features

• Hydrothermally Deposited Rock

• Silica Deposition
• Carbonate Deposition
• Alunite
• Other Hydrothermal Deposits

• Hydrothermally Altered Rock

• Silicification
• Argillic-Advanced Argillic Alteration
• Zeolitic Alteration
• Leach Capping
• Other Hydrothermal Alteration Products

Carbonate deposits come in many forms and sometimes develop into spectacular colorful terraces such as these at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Photo by Darren Atkins

Includes travertine and massive carbonate deposits typically associated with modern chloride-rich alkaline hot spring discharges and/or microbial activity.

Examples

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CSV

Geothermal Resource Area	Geothermal Region	Control Structure	Host Rock Age	Host Rock Lithology	Mean Capacity	Mean Reservoir Temp
Salt Wells Geothermal Area	Northwest Basin and Range Geothermal Region				23.6 MW 23,600 kW 23,600,000 W 23,600,000,000 mW 0.0236 GW 2.36e-5 TW	466.15 K 193 °C 379.4 °F 839.07 °R