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Meixner, A.J. | Gibson, H. | Seikel, R. | Fitzgerald, D. | Horspool, N.
Abstract
Significant volumes of Big Lake Suite granodiorite intrude basement in the Cooper Basin region of central Australia. Thick sedimentary sequences in the Cooper and overlying Eromanga Basins provide a thermal blanketing effect resulting in elevated temperatures at depth. 3D geological maps over the region have been produced from geologically constrained 3D inversions of gravity data. The inverted density models delineate regions of low density within the basement that are inferred to be granitic bodies. The 3D maps include potential heat sources and thermally insulating cover, the key elements in generating an EGS play. A region was extracted from the Cooper Basin 3D map and used as a test region for modelling the temperature, heat flow and geothermal gradients. The test region was populated with thermal properties and boundary conditions were approximated. Temperatures were generated on a discretised version of the model within GeoModeller and were solved by explicit finite difference approximation using a Gauss-Seidel iterative scheme. An enhancement of the GeoModeller software is to allow the input thermal properties to be specified as distribution functions. Multiple thermal simulations using Monte-Carlo methods would be carried out from the supplied distributions. Statistical methods will be used to yield the probability estimates of the in-situ heat resource, reducing the risk of exploring for heat. A fast solver for the inhomogeneous heat equation in free space has been developed using Fourier domain techniques. Typical speed-ups for this strategy over the conventional solvers is better than 1000 to 1.
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- 3D model
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- Hot Rocks
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- geophysics
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- gravity
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- Earth Sciences
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