Conceptual Model At Coso Geothermal Area (1990)

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Exploration Activity: Conceptual Model At Coso Geothermal Area (1990)

Exploration Activity Details
Location	Coso Geothermal Area
Exploration Technique	Conceptual Model
Activity Date	1990
Usefulness	useful
DOE-funding	Unknown

 

Exploration Basis

To develop an understanding of the fracture hydrology of the Coso Mountains crystalline terrain and its hydrologic connection to regional groundwater and thermal source

 

Notes

An interpreted, conceptually balanced regional cross section that extends from the Sierra Nevada through the geothermal reservoir to the Panamint Mountains is presented. The cross section is constrained by new reflection and refraction seismic data, gravity and magnetic modeling, drilling data from the geothermal reservoir, and published regional geologic mapping. The interpretation presented in the cross section and the geochemistry of the reservoir fluids is used to argue that the geothermal system is a thermal bulge on an otherwise normal fracture-controlled regional groundwater flow.

 

References

• Erskine, M. C.   (1 May 1990) Tectonic setting of the Coso geothermal reservoir