Aquarius Mountain Area,Arizona: A Possible HDR Prospect.

摘要

Exploration for Hot Dry Rock (HDR) requires the ability to delineate areas of thermal enhancement. It is likely that some of these areas will exhibit various sorts of anomalous conditions such as seismic transmission delays,low seismic velocities,high attenuation of seismic waves,high electrical conducivity in the crust,and a relatively shallow depth to Curie point of magnetization. The Aquarius Mountain area of northwest Arizona exhibits all of these anomalies. The area is also a regional Bouguer gravity low,which may indicate the presence of high silica type rocks that often have high rates of radioactive heat generation. The one deficiency of the area as a HDR prospect is the lack of a thermal insulating blanket. (ERA citation 04:044660)