{"id":12438,"date":"2024-12-17T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/?page_id=12438"},"modified":"2024-12-17T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:22:56","slug":"dixie-valley-geothermal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/dixie-valley-geothermal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Valley Geothermal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mapping Deep Geothermal<\/strong> Structures in Nevada’s Dixie Valley<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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In order to better understand the deep geology driving hydrothermal activity in the area, deep terrain scale mapping was required.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Magnetotelluric (MT) profiling in northwestern Nevada was used to test hypotheses on the main sources of heat and hydrothermal fluid for the Dixie Valley-Central Nevada Seismic Belt area. The MT transect of ~140 soundings was\n centered on Dixie Valley and oriented WNW-ESE approximately normal to the average trend of horst-graben morphology from the California border in the Smoke Creek area to near the town of Eureka in central Nevada. In the Dixie\n Valley area, the line passes through Cottonwood Canyon and the power producing area.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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The transect revealed families of resistivity structures commonly dominated by steeply-dipping features, some of which may be of key geothermal significance. Most notably, 2-D inversion of these data has resolved a high-angle,\n conductive fault zone-like structure extending from the base of Dixie Valley to a broad, deep crustal conductor beneath the Stillwater-Humboldt Range area. The deep conductor is coincident with the Buena Vista anomalous seismic\n area, and such conductors are generally correlated with magmatic underplating and fluid exsolution.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Title:<\/strong> Geothermal exploration<\/span>\n
Geology:<\/strong> Basin and Range<\/span>\n
Client:<\/strong> US Dept. of Energy\/ University of Utah<\/span>\n
Technology:<\/strong> SPARTAN MT<\/span>\n
Location:<\/strong> Western Nevada<\/span>\n
Sector:<\/strong> Mining<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Mapping Deep Geothermal Structures in Nevada’s Dixie Valley Challenges In order to better understand the deep geology driving hydrothermal activity in the area, deep terrain scale mapping was required. Solutions Magnetotelluric (MT) profiling in northwestern Nevada was used to test hypotheses on the main sources of heat and hydrothermal fluid for the Dixie Valley-Central Nevada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantecgeo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}