Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database
The Snake River Plain (SRP), Idaho, hosts potential geothermal resources due to elevated groundwater temperatures associated with the thermal anomaly Yellowstone-Snake River hotspot. Project HOTSPOT has coordinated international institutions and organizations to understand subsurface stratigraphy and assess geothermal potential. Over 5.9km of core were drilled from three boreholes within the SRP in an attempt to acquire continuous core documenting the volcanic and sedimentary record of the hotspot: (1) Kimama, (2) Kimberly, and (3) Mountain Home. The Mountain Home drill hole is located along the western plain and documents older basalts overlain by sediment.
Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta
Citation Formats
Utah State University. (2012). Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148779.
Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database. United States: N.p., 11 Nov, 2012. Web. doi: 10.15121/1148779.
Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database. United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148779
Shervais, John. 2012. "Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Borehole Geophysics Database". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148779. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/284.
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Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta}, doi = {10.15121/1148779}, url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/284}, journal = {}, number = , volume = , place = {United States}, year = {2012}, month = {11}}
https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148779
Details
Data from Nov 11, 2012
Last updated Jan 8, 2020
Submitted Feb 5, 2014
Organization
Utah State University
Contact
John Shervais
435.797.1274
Authors
Keywords
geothermal, Snake River Plain, Project HOTSPOT, Idaho, Yellowstone Hotspot, borehole geophysics, Mountain Home, geophysics, borehole log, dowhnhole geophysics, temperature, pressure, gamma ray, magnetic susceptibility, geochemistry, thorium, uranium, potassium, neutron, resistivity, image log, SRP, borehole, well dataDOE Project Details
Project Name Recovery Act: The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project: Innovative Approaches to Geothermal Exploration
Project Lead Mark Ziegenbein
Project Number EE0002848
