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Title: Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos

Abstract

The Snake River Plain (SRP), Idaho, hosts potential geothermal resources due to elevated groundwater temperatures associated with the thermal anomaly Yellowstone-Snake River hotspot. Project HOTSPOT has coordinated international institutions and organizations to understand subsurface stratigraphy and assess geothermal potential. Over 5.9km of core were drilled from three boreholes within the SRP in an attempt to acquire continuous core documenting the volcanic and sedimentary record of the hotspot: (1) Kimama, (2) Kimberly, and (3) Mountain Home. The Mountain Home drill hole is located along the western plain and documents older basalts overlain by sediment. This submission includes photos of the core samples taken from the Mountain Home drill hole. Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta *Note - The archive file "MH Photos.zip" contains all of the photos associated with this submission in a more easily downloaded format

Authors:

  1. Utah State University
Publication Date:
Other Number(s):
289
DOE Contract Number:  
EE0002848
Research Org.:
DOE Geothermal Data Repository; Utah State University
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-2C)
Collaborations:
Utah State University
Subject:
15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; Idaho; Mountain Home; Project HOTSPOT; SRP; Snake River Plain; Yellowstone Hotspot; borehole geophysics; continuous volcanism; core; core log; core sample; downhole geophysics; drilling; geothermal; photo core log; photos; well data
OSTI Identifier:
1148776
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776

Citation Formats

Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.15121/1148776.
Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776
Shervais, John. 2012. "Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1148776. Pub date:Wed Jan 11 04:00:00 UTC 2012
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abstractNote = {The Snake River Plain (SRP), Idaho, hosts potential geothermal resources due to elevated groundwater temperatures associated with the thermal anomaly Yellowstone-Snake River hotspot. Project HOTSPOT has coordinated international institutions and organizations to understand subsurface stratigraphy and assess geothermal potential. Over 5.9km of core were drilled from three boreholes within the SRP in an attempt to acquire continuous core documenting the volcanic and sedimentary record of the hotspot: (1) Kimama, (2) Kimberly, and (3) Mountain Home. The Mountain Home drill hole is located along the western plain and documents older basalts overlain by sediment. This submission includes photos of the core samples taken from the Mountain Home drill hole. Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta *Note - The archive file "MH Photos.zip" contains all of the photos associated with this submission in a more easily downloaded format},
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