Utah FORGE: GIS Well Temperature Data

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This is a GIS point feature shapefile representing wells, and their temperatures, that are located in the general Utah FORGE area near Milford, Utah. There are also fields that represent interpolated temperature values at depths of 200 m, 1000 m, 2000 m, 3000 m, and 4000 m. in degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperature values at specific depths as mentioned above were derived as follows. In cases where the well reached a given depth (200 m and 1, 2, 3, or 4 km), the temperature is the measured temperature. For the shallower wells (and at deeper depths in the wells reaching one or more of the target depths), temperatures were extrapolated from the temperature-depth profiles that appeared to have stable (re-equilibrated after drilling) and linear profiles within the conductive regime (i.e. below the water table or other convective influences such as shallow hydrothermal outflow from the Roosevelt Hydrothermal System). Measured temperatures/gradients from deeper wells (when available and reasonably close to a given well) were used to help constrain the extrapolation to greater depths.

Most of the field names in the attribute table are intuitive, however HF = heat flow, intercept = the temperature at the surface (x-axis of the temperature-depth plots) based on the linear segment of the plot that was used to extrapolate the temperature profiles to greater depths, and depth_m is the total well depth. This information is also present in the shapefile metadata.

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Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah. (2018). Utah FORGE: GIS Well Temperature Data [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1452744.
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Gwynn, Mark, Hill, Jay, and Allis, Rick. Utah FORGE: GIS Well Temperature Data . United States: N.p., 28 Feb, 2018. Web. doi: 10.15121/1452744.
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Gwynn, Mark, Hill, Jay, and Allis, Rick. 2018. "Utah FORGE: GIS Well Temperature Data ". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1452744. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1012.
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The temperature values at specific depths as mentioned above were derived as follows. In cases where the well reached a given depth (200 m and 1, 2, 3, or 4 km), the temperature is the measured temperature. For the shallower wells (and at deeper depths in the wells reaching one or more of the target depths), temperatures were extrapolated from the temperature-depth profiles that appeared to have stable (re-equilibrated after drilling) and linear profiles within the conductive regime (i.e. below the water table or other convective influences such as shallow hydrothermal outflow from the Roosevelt Hydrothermal System). Measured temperatures/gradients from deeper wells (when available and reasonably close to a given well) were used to help constrain the extrapolation to greater depths.

Most of the field names in the attribute table are intuitive, however HF = heat flow, intercept = the temperature at the surface (x-axis of the temperature-depth plots) based on the linear segment of the plot that was used to extrapolate the temperature profiles to greater depths, and depth_m is the total well depth. This information is also present in the shapefile metadata.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1452744

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Data from Feb 28, 2018

Last updated Mar 12, 2020

Submitted Feb 28, 2018

Organization

Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Contact

Greg Nash

801.585.9986

Authors

Mark Gwynn

Utah Geological Survey

Jay Hill

Utah Geological Survey

Rick Allis

Utah Geological Survey

DOE Project Details

Project Name Utah FORGE

Project Lead Lauren Boyd

Project Number EE0007080

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