Geothermal resources formation conditions and preferred target areas in a certain county of Western Sichuan, China

作者：LI Jun-ya,WANG Yu-jue,HE Xue-wen,XUE Guo-dong,XU Huan,TIAN Yan-hong,ZHAO Li-li,CUI Qi-hang

摘要：The geothermal resource is a form of “green” and renewable energy with huge development potential in terms of both environmental protection and economy. It was concluded that the exposed hot springs were mostly produced when fluids derived from atmospheric precipitation were heated deep and recurrently under the ground, developed banded geothermal reservoir in the pores of fault damage zones, fissure zones, hornification zones and dikes, and then moved upward with analyzing the geological and hydrogeological data as well as hydrochemical types of the naturally exposed hot springs in the studied region so as to ascertain the accumulation conditions of geothermal resources in a particular county in Western Sichuan and opt for suitable target areas for exploring geothermal resources. Four areas where geothermal resources are potentially located were proposed with analysis of their formation conditions based on this notion, and the “epsilon-shaped” structure in Zhimulin, the “epsilon-shaped” structure in Jiaochang, the vortex structure in Rewugou and the arcuate structure in Shidaguan were analyzed in this paper offering a reference for developing and exploiting the geothermal resources in the region as well as studying the development patterns of other hot springs in this region.

发文机构：No. 405 Geological Team

关键词：GEOTHERMALresourcesGEOLOGICALstructureRESERVOIRformationconditions

分类号： TV[水利工程]