The Taupo-Rotorua Hot Plate
- Location
- Taupo Volcanic Zone; New Zealand
- Conference
- New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 1992
- Session
- Modelling
- Language
- English
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Abstract
A qualitative model of the hydrothermal systems in the Taupo Volcanic Zone originating from a common hot-plate is presented and tested for viability against data from the Wairakei Geothermal Field and various available geophysical and chemical measurements. The concept of a deep dense stably-stratified hot brine layer forming the hot plate is presented as an inevitable consequence of the phase properties of the system at high pressures and temperatures.
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