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THE GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE In order to have an exploitable geothermal resource, it is critical to have a heat source, a reservoir, and a fracture network. It is also desirable to have a significant amount of natural recharge and an “impermeable cap” overlying the thermal reservoir. Heat Source Many high temperature geothermal fields are located in the vicinity of active or dormant volcanoes (or other extrusive igneous bodies) where the subsurface magma temperatures are still very high. In this case, the heat from the magma is conductively transferred to the surrounding rocks which in turn conductively transfer heat to circulating (convecting) fluids. Though there are some extrusive igneous rocks (basalts) not far from Glenwood Springs, their ages and those of their underlying magma bodies are too old (~15-20 million years) to comprise viable heat sources for the waters within the Leadville Limestone. Accordingly, it is likely that the Leadville waters are heated by circulation along faults, fractures, and joints, to significant depths following their meteoric (rain or snow) origins. The thermal gradient (change of temperature per unit depth increase) measured in the Wright well was about 1.8oF/100 feet. This is 1.06% above the regional average gradient and if this gradient remains constant Leadville waters could be heated to about 180oF at a depth of about 4,000 feet. If the average dip of the Leadville Limestone is taken as 20 degrees, then a well to that depth drilled about 11,100 feet (~2.1 miles) to the southwest of the Colorado River, in the vicinity of 26th Street South, might yield artesian flows at about 180oF. Reservoir Though there are other formations that contain potentially permeable Limestone and/or sandstone beds, by far the best geothermal reservoir rock beneath the Glenwood Springs area is the Leadville Limestone. As previously mentioned, this formation is composed almost entirely of calcium carbonate, a substance that is very soluble in water. The Leadville has many features that can allow water to circulate through and dissolve the Limestone. These features include naturally occurring joints, fractures of all widths caused by stresses imposed on the formation as it was draped over the White River Uplift, and major faults, also created in response to regional stresses, that randomly transect the formation. When meteoric waters percolate downward through the overlying evaporates and shales (via fractures, primarily), they contact the soluble carbonate rock and dissolve it leaving karst features, vugs, caverns, and significantly enlarged joints and bedding planes. Over time, many of these solution features have become interconnected so that the Leadville Limestone contains and allows relatively rapid movement of very large quantities of water. When this water is circulated to depths in excess of 4,000 feet in the vicinity of Glenwood Springs, it becomes heated, as described in the report section above, so that the formation can be considered to comprise a geothermal reservoir. 18PDF Image | GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO
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