Fluid Flow in the Waiotapu Geothermal System, Implications for Its Potential
- Location
- Waiotapu, New Zealand; Taupo Volcanic Zone
- Conference
- New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 1982
- Session
- New Zealand Fields - Scientific
- Language
- English
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Abstract
The Waiotapu geothermal system lies within the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zeal and; i t has the greatest heat flow and largest area of any system the country. The system was explored in the 1950's; maximum measured temperature was 295 C in the south, temperature inversions measured in the north. A mixing model incorporating well and surface sprin chemistry indicates that the focus of 1 km) fluid upflow is in the north, below drilled depths. This upflow is deflected southwards by a near surface, laterally flowing d.
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