Fault Mapping At Coso Geothermal Area (1980)

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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Exploration Activity: Fault Mapping At Coso Geothermal Area (1980)

Exploration Activity Details
Location	Coso Geothermal Area
Exploration Technique	Fault Mapping
Activity Date	1980
Usefulness	useful
DOE-funding	Unknown

Exploration Basis

To determine the Late Cenozoic volcanism, geochronology, and structure of the Coso Range

Notes

This system apparently is heated by a reservoir of silicic magma at greater than or equal to 8-km depth, itself produced and sustained through partial melting of crustal rocks by thermal energy contained in mantle-derived basaltic magma that intrudes the crust in repsonse to lithospheric extension.

References

• Duffield, W.A.; Bacon, C.R.; Dalrymple, G.B.   (10 May 1980) Late Cenozoic volcanism, geochronology, and structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California