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Derkey, Pamela D. , and Johnson, Bruce R. , 1996, Digital maps of low- to moderate-temperature geothermal springs and wells in the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-689.Online Links:
This is a vector data set.
The map projection used is Albers Conical Equal Area.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
Value | Definition |
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CA | California |
ID | Idaho |
MT | Montana |
NV | Nevada |
OR | Oregon |
UT | Utah |
WA | Washington |
Value | Definition |
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collector | Collector well |
drain | Drain for petroleum or gas well |
mine | Mine location |
spring | Spring location |
spring? | probable spring |
tunnel | Dewatering tunnel |
water well | Water well location |
well | Well location |
well? | Probable well location |
well-CLT | Commercial low-T well |
well-EST | Exploratory steam well |
well-flowing | Well with flow |
well-INJ | Injection well |
well-NLT | Noncommercial low-T well |
well-OIL | Petroleum well |
well-SW | Well drilled to control spring flow |
well-TG | Temperature gradient |
well-X | type not confirmed0 but most appear to be high-T exploration wells |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 39.0017 |
Maximum: | 48.9732 |
Units: | degrees |
Resolution: | 0.0001 |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | -199.7357 |
Maximum: | -107.5275 |
Units: | degrees |
Resolution: | 0.0001 |
Value | Definition |
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-999.0 | unknown temperature |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 8.9 |
Maximum: | 265.0 |
Units: | degree Celcius |
Resolution: | 0.1 |
Value | Definition |
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-999.0 | Unknown depth |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 0.6 |
Maximum: | 6492.3 |
Units: | meters |
Resolution: | 0.1 |
Value | Definition |
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-999.0 | unknown |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 0.1 |
Maximum: | 2550000.0 |
Units: | liters per minute |
Resolution: | 0.1 |
Value | Definition |
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-99.00 | unknown |
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 2.30 |
Maximum: | 10.82 |
Units: | pH |
Resolution: | 0.01 |
This product would not exist without the input of the many geoscientists whose work has previously been compiled to create datasets of geothermal water information. We had the simpler task of converting our predecessors' digital spreadsheet datasets to a single unified geographic information system format. We acknowledge the work of those geoscientists and the agencies that supported their compilations. Those agencies include the US Geological Survey, the US Department of Energy, the California Division of Mines and Geology, the Idaho Geological Survey, the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, the Oregon Institute of Technology Geo-Heat Center, the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. We particularly acknowledge Patrick Geehan, the Bureau of Land Management project coordinator for the Interior Columbia River Basin Ecosystem Management Project. Pat had the foresight to recognize that geology could contribute in many ways to ecosystem management and sought input from the US Geological Survey. We also gratefully acknowledge Patrick Muffler for his review of this report.
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To provide a digital geologic map database of low- to moderate-temperature geothermal springs and wells in the Pacific Northwest.
Youngs, Leslie G., 1994, California low-temperature geothermal resources update -1993: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology.
Dansart, William J., Kauffman, John D., and Mink, Leland L., 1994, Overview of geothermal investigations in Idaho, 1980 to 1993: Idaho Water Resources Research Institute Research Technical Completion Report.
Metesh, John, 1994, Geothermal resources of Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology unpublished report submitted to Oregon Institute of Technology Geo Heat Center and to University of Utah Research Institute.
Garside, Larry J., 1994, Nevada low-temperature geothermal resource assessment: 1994: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Open-File Report 94-2.
Black, Gerald L., 1994, Digital data and selected texts from low-temperature geothermal database for Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open-File Report O-94-9.
Blackett, Robert E., 1994, Low-temperature geothermal water in Utah: a compilation of data for thermal wells and springs through 1993: Utah Geological Survey, Open-File Report 311.
Schuster, J. Eric, and Bloomquist, R. Gordon, 1994, Low-temperature geothermal resources of Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open-File Report 94-11.
Digital geothermal data for the state of Wyoming were not available and, thus, not included in this report.
The sources of digital data for the geothermal springs and wells maps were individual geothermal reports for the states of California (Youngs, 1994), Idaho (Dansart, Kauffman, and Mink, 1994), Montana (Metesh, 1994), Nevada (Garside,1994), Oregon (Black, 1994), Utah (Blackett, 1994), and Washington (Schuster and Bloomquist, 1994). Locations of rivers and perennial streams used on the geothermal springs and wells maps were obtained from USGS 1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graphs (US Geological Survey, 1990).
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US Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-0689
This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with US Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for desciptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government.
Data format: | Geothermal data set in format ArcInfo export (version 7.x) Size: 447 kilobytes |
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Network links: |
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