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Nevada Great Basin Play Fairway Analysis Regional Data

Published by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | Department of Energy | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-07-07T15:55:12Z
This project focused on defining geothermal play fairways and development of a detailed geothermal potential map of a large transect across the Great Basin region (96,000 km2), with the primary objective of facilitating discovery of commercial-grade, blind geothermal fields (i.e. systems with no surface hot springs or fumaroles) and thereby accelerating geothermal development in this promising region. Data included in this submission consists of: structural settings (target areas, recency of faulting, slip and dilation potential, slip rates, quality), regional-scale strain rates, earthquake density and magnitude, gravity data, temperature at 3 km depth, permeability models, favorability models, degree of exploration and exploration opportunities, data from springs and wells, transmission lines and wilderness areas, and published maps and theses for the Nevada Play Fairway area.

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130C 2.40g/cc 20km 3km Arc BLM Combined Permeability Earthquakes Exploration Opportunities HGM ISO 240 ISO 267 MT Stations NDOT NV Great Basin Nevada USFS anomalous values arcgis benchmarks buffer data degree of exploration depth dilation potential dilation tendency direct evidence earthquake error exploration fairway fault fault name faults favorability forest service geodetic strain geospatial data geothermal geothermal systems geothermometer gradient gravity gravity stations great basin heat horizontal horizontal gravity gradient input location magnitude map map package model mpk mxd permeability phase 2 power power plants quaternary quaternary fault quaternary faults recency regional permeability roads second invariant slip rate slip rates slip tendency springs strain rate structures study summed dilation summed slip temperature temperature model transmission transmission lines wells wilderness

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DOI 10.15121/1225261
identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/6866
issued 2015-10-28T06:00:00Z
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license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2025-07-07T15:55:12Z
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projectLead Holly Thomas
projectNumber EE0006731
projectTitle Discovering Blind Geothermal Systems in the Great Basin Region: An Integrated Geologic and Geophysical Approach for Establishing Geothermal Play Fairways
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title Nevada Great Basin Play Fairway Analysis Regional Data

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