Colorado Potential Geothermal Pathways

This layer contains the weakened basement rocks. Isostatic gravity was utilized to identify structural basin areas, characterized by gravity low values reflecting weakened basement rocks. Together interpreted regional fault zones and basin outlines define geothermal "exploration fairways", where the potential exists for deep, superheated fluid flow in the absence of Pliocene or younger volcanic units.

Data and Resources

Field Value
DOI 10.15121/1148766
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projectLead Mark Ziegenbein
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projectTitle Recovery Act: Use Remote Sensing Data (selected visible and infrared spectrums) to locate high temp ground anomalies in Colorado.Confirm heat flow potential w/ on-site temp surveys to drill deep resource wells
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • analysis
  • anomaly-detection
  • arcgis
  • basement-weakness
  • basement-weaknesses
  • ckan
  • colorado
  • data
  • exploration
  • fault-detection
  • faults
  • fluid-flow
  • geo
  • geophysics
  • geospatial
  • geospatial-data
  • geoss
  • geothermal
  • gravity
  • national
  • north-america
  • pfa
  • play-fairway
  • remote-sensing
  • shape-file
  • shapefile
  • superheated-fluid-flow
  • united-states
  • volcanic-activity
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metadata_modified 2025-11-20T19:28:14.099206
notes This layer contains the weakened basement rocks. Isostatic gravity was utilized to identify structural basin areas, characterized by gravity low values reflecting weakened basement rocks. Together interpreted regional fault zones and basin outlines define geothermal "exploration fairways", where the potential exists for deep, superheated fluid flow in the absence of Pliocene or younger volcanic units.
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title Colorado Potential Geothermal Pathways