Hot Dry Rock Resources of the Clear Lake Area, Northern California
- Key words
- plate tectonics, slabless window, heat flow, volcanism, hot dry rock
- Location
- Clear Lake, California
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 12 - Advanced Technologies (HDR - Magma - Geopressur
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 4-Burns2
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Abstract
The Hot Dry Rock resources of the Clear Lake area of northern California are hot, large and areally uniform. The geological situation is special, probably overlying a slabless window caused by interaction between tectonic plates. Consequent magmatic processes have created a high-grade resource, in which the isotherm is continuous, subhorizontal, and available at the shallow depth of 2.4 to 4.7 km over an area of 800 The region is very favorable for HDR development.
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