Targeting of Potential Geothermal Resources in the Great Basin from Regional Relationships between Geodetic Strain and Geological Structures

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 523-525

  Blewitt, Geoffrey ^a   Coolbaugh, Mark ^a   Holt, William ^b   Kreemer, Corné ^b,d   Davis, James L ^c   Bennett, Richard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Creat Basin; Geodetic; Geothermal; GPS; Nevada; Strain; Structure

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES;

GEOTHERMAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 0242409825     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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