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Geothermal Exploration

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Geothermal Resources

Abstract

The objective is to find geothermal phenomena. The appropriate geological environments are restricted mostly to regions on or near the active margins of tectonic plates at which crustal material is being either produced or destroyed and, although there may be the odd exception (e.g. Hawaii), invariably there must be a heat source. Whilst sites are determined by this factor and by the regional geology, surface phenomena or borehole manifestations of hydrological significance are recognition markers. However, they depend upon these heat sources and also upon the presence of a transport medium, normally water, responsible for the appearance of heat at the surface, together with adequate permeability in the relevant rocks.

‘Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.’

Isaiah, 29:6

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