Inferred role of natural fractures, veins, and breccias in development of the artificial geothermal reservoir at the Ogachi Hot Dry Rock site, Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Ito, Hisatoshi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dyke; Fluid flow; Hot dry rock; Hydrothermal brecciation; Natural fracture; Well bore imaging tool

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CALDERA; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HOT DRY ROCK; HYDROGEOLOGY; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

HONSHU; JAPAN; OGACHI;

EID: 0347530069     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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