Subsurface Stratigraphy, Structure, and Alteration in the Senator Thermal Area, Northern Dixie Valley Geothermal Field, Nevada - Initial Results from Injection Well 38-32, and a New Structural Scenario for the Stillwater Escarpment

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 533-542

  Johnson, Stuart D ^a   Hulen, Jeffrey B ^b  

^a Caithness Operating Company   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL WELLS; GRAVITATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

THERMOHYDROLOGY;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS;

EID: 0242577494     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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