Terrestrial heat flux measuring and geothermal zoning for regional and petroleum geology on the base of satellite IR-thermal survey (STS)
- Institute of Remote Sensing Methods for Geology-VNIIKAM, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
The total terrestrial heat flux (THF) contains two parts conductive and convective components. The traditional geothermal technique of THF measurements has a few deficiency. This technique is based on the conductive heat transfer theory and as a result can`t achieve correct data in areas of high values of convective THF. The big spacing between deep bore holes using for THF measurements, is a reason of extrapolation and interpolation arrows too, especially in the areas of the high values of convective THF which varies more frequently then conductive one. There is an unique possibility to measure the total heat flux on the bases of surface heat balance equation with help of STS. The last researches show that convective THF could reach values of n*10 W/m2 (n = 1,2{hor_ellipsis}). For THF measuring the special algorithm and software was designed. The geothermal zoning on the base of STS of Russian plate was done. The heated zones are coincide with big stretched regional tectonic structures at the area of Northern part of European plate and Baltic shield the giant system of heated zones was recorded by STS. Analysis of this results showed that heated zones define location of minerals of hydrothermal origin. For Timan-Pechora hydrocarbon basin the most of discovered gas and oil supplies located in the certain geothermal conditions.
- OSTI ID:
- 255327
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960203-; TRN: 96:002806-0027
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 11. thematic conference on geologic remote sensing, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 27-29 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the eleventh thematic conference - geologic remote sensing: Practical solutions for real world problems. Volume 1; PB: 634 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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