| Abstract: | Temperature logs were made repeatedly during breaks in drilling and both during and after flow tests in the Salton Sea Scientific Drilling Project well (State 2-14). The purpose of these logs was to assist in identifying zones of fluid loss or gain and to characterize reservoir temperatures. At the conclusion of the active phase of the project, a series of logs was begun in an attempt to establish the equilibrium temperature profile. Thermal gradients decrease from about 250 mK m-1 in the upper few hundred meters to just below 200 mK m-1 near the base of the conductive cap. Using one interpretation, thermal conductivities increase with depth (mainly because of decreasing porosity), resulting in component heat flows that agree reasonably well with the mean of about 450 mW m-2. This value agrees well with heat flow data from the shallow wells within the Salton Sea geothermal field. A second interpretation, in which measured temperature coefficients of quartz- and carbonate-rich rocks are used to correct thermal conductivity, results in lower mean conductivities that are roughly constant with depth and, consequently, systematically decreasing heat flux averaging about 350 mW m-2 below 300 m. This interpretation is consistent with the inference (from fluid inclusion studies) that the rocks in this part of the field were once several tens of degrees Celsius hotter than they are now. The age of this possible disturbance is estimated at a few thousand years. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Sass, J. H.; Priest, S. S.; Duda, L. E.; Carson, C. C.; Hendricks, J. D.; Robison, L. C. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Thermal regime of the State 2-14 well, Salton Sea Scientific Drilling Project; 1988; Article; Journal; Journal of Geophysical Research; Sass, J. H.; Priest, S. S.; Duda, L. E.; Carson, C. C.; Hendricks, J. D.; Robison, L. C. |
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| Text: | Thermal regime of the State 2-14 well, Salton Sea Scientific Drilling Project; 1988; Article; Journal; Journal of Geophysical Research; Sass, J. H.; Priest, S. S.; Duda, L. E.; Carson, C. C.; Hendricks, J. D.; Robison, L. C. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1988 00:00 -0600 |
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