Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos
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. This submission includes photos of the core samples taken from the Mountain Home drill hole.
Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta
*Note - The archive file "MH Photos.zip" contains all of the photos associated with this submission in a more easily downloaded format
MH Photos.zip
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AB - 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. This submission includes photos of the core samples taken from the Mountain Home drill hole.
Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta
*Note - The archive file "MH Photos.zip" contains all of the photos associated with this submission in a more easily downloaded format
AU - Shervais, John
DB - Geothermal Data Repository
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.15121/1148776
KW - geothermal
KW - Snake River Plain
KW - Idaho
KW - Yellowstone Hotspot
KW - Project HOTSPOT
KW - borehole geophysics
KW - Mountain Home
KW - drilling
KW - photo core log
KW - downhole geophysics
KW - photos
KW - SRP
KW - continuous volcanism
KW - core sample
KW - core log
KW - well data
KW - core
LA - English
DA - 2012/01/11
PY - 2012
PB - Utah State University
T1 - Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos
UR - https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776
ER -
Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos. Utah State University, 11 January, 2012, Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776.
Shervais, J. (2012). Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos. [Data set]. Geothermal Data Repository. Utah State University. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776
Shervais, John. Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos. Utah State University, January, 11, 2012. Distributed by Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776
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title = {Project HOTSPOT: Mountain Home Well Core and Drill Site Photos},
author = {Shervais, John},
abstractNote = {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. This submission includes photos of the core samples taken from the Mountain Home drill hole.
Data submitted by project collaborator Doug Schmitt, University of Alberta
*Note - The archive file "MH Photos.zip" contains all of the photos associated with this submission in a more easily downloaded format},
url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/289},
year = {2012},
howpublished = {Geothermal Data Repository, Utah State University, https://doi.org/10.15121/1148776},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-28},
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https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148776
Details
Data from Jan 11, 2012
Last updated Jan 8, 2020
Submitted Feb 6, 2014
Organization
Utah State University
Contact
John Shervais
435.797.1274
Authors
John Shervais
Utah State UniversityKeywords
geothermal, Snake River Plain, Idaho, Yellowstone Hotspot, Project HOTSPOT, borehole geophysics, Mountain Home, drilling, photo core log, downhole geophysics, photos, SRP, continuous volcanism, core sample, core log, well data, coreDOE Project Details
Project Name Recovery Act: The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project: Innovative Approaches to Geothermal Exploration
Project Lead Mark Ziegenbein
Project Number EE0002848
