Evaluation of the geothermal potential of the western Snake River Plain based on a deep corehole on the Mountain Home AFB near Mountain Home, Idaho

Evaluation of the geothermal potential of the western Snake River Plain based on a deep corehole on the Mountain Home AFB near Mountain Home, Idaho

Abstract A geothermal exploration corehole was drilled to a total depth of 1821.5 m on the Mountain Home Air Force Base near Mountain Home, Idaho. The corehole was used to collect an unusually large amount of data, including uniaxial compressive stress (UCS) experiments on core samples, to evaluate...

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Main Authors: Thomas E. Lachmar, Thomas G. Freeman, James A. Kessler, Joseph F. Batir, James P. Evans, Dennis L. Nielson, John W. Shervais, Xiwei Chen, Douglas R. Schmitt, David D. Blackwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Geothermal Energy
Subjects:
Temperature log
Heat flow
Geothermometers
Basalt
UCS experiments
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40517-019-0142-7

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