Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

This site is currently in beta, and your feedback is helping shape its ongoing development.

DEEPEN: Newberry Volcano MT and Gravity Data - 2022 and 2023 Acquisition and Processing

Published by Enthalpion Energy | Department of Energy | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-12-02T19:26:03Z
As part of DEEPEN (DE-risking Exploration of geothermal Plays in magmatic ENvironments), a 3D play fairway analysis (PFA) was conducted at Newberry Volcano in Central Oregon for multiple play types (conventional hydrothermal, superhot EGS, and supercritical). For use in this PFA, combined full tensor broadband magnetotelluric (MT) and gravity data were acquired, processed, and inverted by Enthalpion Energy LLC (Enthalpion) with support from NREL staff. The data collection efforts took place from June 19th to July 24. Data were collected with the goal of gaining an improved understanding of the South Flank and the extent of the magma chamber. This GDR submission includes the raw data, single inversions, joint inversions, resolution matrices, and a report on these processes. More detailed information about the folder structure of the datasets included in this submission may be found on pages 94-97 of Magnetotelluric and Gravity Survey Report.pdf below.

Find Related Datasets

Click any tag below to search for similar datasets

Complete Metadata
@type dcat:Dataset
accessLevel public
bureauCode 
                                            [
  "019:20"
]
contactPoint 
                                            {
  "fn": "Adam Schultz",
  "@type": "vcard:Contact",
  "hasEmail": "mailto:adam.schultz@enthalpion.com"
}
dataQuality 
                                            true
description As part of DEEPEN (DE-risking Exploration of geothermal Plays in magmatic ENvironments), a 3D play fairway analysis (PFA) was conducted at Newberry Volcano in Central Oregon for multiple play types (conventional hydrothermal, superhot EGS, and supercritical). For use in this PFA, combined full tensor broadband magnetotelluric (MT) and gravity data were acquired, processed, and inverted by Enthalpion Energy LLC (Enthalpion) with support from NREL staff. The data collection efforts took place from June 19th to July 24. Data were collected with the goal of gaining an improved understanding of the South Flank and the extent of the magma chamber. This GDR submission includes the raw data, single inversions, joint inversions, resolution matrices, and a report on these processes. More detailed information about the folder structure of the datasets included in this submission may be found on pages 94-97 of Magnetotelluric and Gravity Survey Report.pdf below.
distribution 
                                            [
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "MT Binary Files",
    "format": "HTML",
    "accessURL": "https://data.openei.org/s3_viewer?bucket=gdr-data-lake&prefix=newberry_mt_data%2F",
    "mediaType": "text/html",
    "description": "Raw, binary survey time series and related data as recorded by our MT instruments. The nature of our wideband surveys includes recording 5 electric and magnetic field channels at 32-bit (4-byte) precision continuously at 1,024 samples per second for two days per station for 24 hours per day."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "MT Response Data.zip",
    "format": "zip",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/MT%20Response%20Data.zip",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "description": "This zipped archive contains MT_Original and MT_PickedForInversion subfolders, including EDI format files containing the MT responses (impedances and tippers) for each station. The second of these subfolders contains a subset of the impedance data, with the number of periods used in the inversions downselected for the full set of periods originally calculated as described elsewhere in this document."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "MT and Gravity Data and Operations Information.zip",
    "format": "zip",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/MT%20and%20Gravity%20Data%20and%20Operations%20Information.zip",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "description": "This zipped archive contains the daily reports subfolder and the MT-Gravity-Survey- Locations-and-Data subfolder, where original and processed gravity data can be found, as well as maps showing the locations of the gravity and MT stations. A nested Gravity Data subfolder contains spreadsheets of the raw measured gravity data (file: Grav_Raw_Data.xlsx), as well as the final processed data (file: Newberry_Gravity_2022_Final.xlsx). The daily-reports subfolder contains reports filed at the end of each day’s field activities, reporting on accomplishments and issues encountered and resolved.  "
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Magnetotelluric and Gravity Survey Report.pdf",
    "format": "pdf",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/Magnetotelluric%20Survey%20Report%20NV22%20Enthalpion%20for%20National%20Renewable%20Energy%20Laboratory%20V09-29-2023%20%281%29.pdf",
    "mediaType": "application/pdf",
    "description": "This final project report presents the results of the combined full tensor wideband magnetotelluric (MT) survey and gravity survey. The analysis of these data sets as well as the 3D inversion (gravity singly, MT singly, and MT and gravity jointly) are also presented here."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Models_JointInversion.zip",
    "format": "zip",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/Models_JointInversion.zip",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "description": "Jointly inverted gravity and MT models. This archive includes two graphics files displaying the RMS misfits, at each station, between the MT impedances vs. period at each station and the calculated impedances from the inverted 3D resistivity, along with three sub-folders: (1) Joint_separate-comparison which compares separate and joint MT and gravity inverse model results, in both vertical sections through the 3D model, and horizontal map views, for two different model depths; (2) JointInv which contains various vertical sections and horizontal map views at various model depths and csv files containing the 3D joint inversion density and resistivity models; (3) MTImpedanceFitting which includes MT impedance data from a given Newberry wideband MT station actually used in the inversion, and the fit of the 3-D resistivity model to that data. "
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Models_SingleInversions.zip",
    "format": "zip",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/Models_SingleInversions.zip",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "description": "Singly/separately inverted gravity and MT models. This zipped archive includes three subfolders: Density, Resistivity, Tipper, as well as several graphics files in .png format. The Density and Resistivity subfolders contain various views of the eponymous properties from, respectively, the non-joint gravity and MT inversions, respectively. The Tipper subfolder contains images in a map view overlaid on the resistivity volume at a depth of 2.5 km, showing the real and imaginary components of the induction vectors for each of a set of different periods (1/frequencies), serving as a proxy for depths of penetration below ground level. This subfolder also includes a movie in .mp4 format that sequentially displays these images as at each of the periods in ascending order, i.e. representing successively greater depths beneath ground level."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Raw MT Data Readme.pdf",
    "format": "pdf",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/Raw%20MT%20Data%20Readme_162450.pdf",
    "mediaType": "application/pdf",
    "description": "This is the Readme file for the raw MT data.  Included here are the method for accessing the roughly 340 GB of raw MT data as well as details on the folder structure and format that the data are stored in."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "ResolutionMatrices.zip",
    "format": "zip",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/1514/ResolutionMatrices.zip",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "description": "This zipped archive contains images and csv files providing resolving power information for the resistivity and density models."
  }
]
DOI 10.15121/2281888
identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/7604
issued 2023-06-30T06:00:00Z
keyword 
                                            [
  "3-D model",
  "DEEPEN",
  "EGS",
  "MT",
  "MT impedance",
  "Newberry",
  "Oregon",
  "PFA",
  "Play Fairway Analysis",
  "characterization",
  "daily reports",
  "density",
  "energy",
  "exploration",
  "geophysics",
  "geothermal",
  "gravity",
  "hydrothermal",
  "inversion",
  "joint inversion",
  "magmatic",
  "processed data",
  "raw data",
  "resistivity",
  "resolution matrix",
  "single inversion",
  "supercritical",
  "superhot EGS",
  "uncertainty"
]
landingPage https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1514
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2025-12-02T19:26:03Z
programCode 
                                            [
  "019:006"
]
projectLead Lauren Boyd
projectNumber 
                                            "37178"
projectTitle DE-risking Exploration of geothermal Plays in magmatic ENvironments (DEEPEN)
publisher 
                                            {
  "name": "Enthalpion Energy",
  "@type": "org:Organization"
}
spatial 
                                            "{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-121.4333333,43.51666667],[-121.0333333,43.51666667],[-121.0333333,43.91666667],[-121.4333333,43.91666667],[-121.4333333,43.51666667]]]}"
title DEEPEN: Newberry Volcano MT and Gravity Data - 2022 and 2023 Acquisition and Processing

data.gov

An official website of the GSA's Technology Transformation Services

Looking for U.S. government information and services?
Visit USA.gov