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Geology Basins Flashcards

UofG Basins elective 2023

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What controls sediment supply?
and Basin Types

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Tectonics (need to fill a hole!) and Climate

  1. Rift - Stretch therefore rapid subsidence, then decrease profile
  2. Passive Margin - Continued extension, creates oceanic crust (constructional and starved passive margins)
  3. Strike - Slip - Flower Structures
  4. Foreland - Loading causes subsidence eg. south falkland basin
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What creates the waves for seismic?

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  • Hammer and dynamite (onshore)
  • Airgun (offshore)
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Seismic Receivers

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  • Hydrophones (offshore)
  • Geophones (onshore)
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Seismic Recorders

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Seismograph

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What does seismic data present?

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The measured changes in density through changes in velocity of seismic waves

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What does seismic allow us to do?

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  1. Identify potential targets
  2. Understand geological history of region
  3. Identify potential hazards
  4. Quantify potential resources
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Seismic Strat.
How would you identify Onlap/Offlap

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Dip less than surface they terminate on

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Seismic Strat
How would you identify Down lap

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Dip greater than surface they terminate on

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Seismic Strat
How would you identify Toplap

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Dip greater than surface at which they terminate. Mirror of downlap

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Play requirements

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  • Source
  • Migration pathway
  • Reservoir
  • Seal
  • Trap
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Play Concept
Source

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Sed. rock - sufficient organic mats
1st Carbs and proteins, then lipids and ligins
Oil and gas from aqueous - mainly gas from terrestrial
- Sed. decreases therefore increase concentration organic matter
- Anoxic environment therefore lack of circulation

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Main source rock depositional environments

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lacustrine eg. green river formation, Utah
Delta eg. Missionary bay Mangroves
Deep Marine eg. Black sea

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What are the key types of well data?

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Core, Mud logging, and wireline

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Play Concepts
What is Primary Migration

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  • Flow out of source
  • Low permeability: fracture in source promote expulsion
  • Kerogen to petroleum = increase vol. therefore promiotes micro-fracturs and increase pA
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What does Gamma ray show?

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Quantities of K, Th, and U within rocks
Low values usually sandstone, high values usually shale
Help to understand depositional environment

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Play Concepts
What is Secondary Migration

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  • Flow from sources
  • HCs more buoyant that water and decrease solubility
    therefore drives migration
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What does Neutron Data show?

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Indicates porosity by No. hydrogen atoms
Hydrogen present in water and HCs
Count rate is low in high porosity rocks, and high in low porosity rocks
(where less H, neutrons bounce back therefore high return, where more H, neutrons scatter, therefore less return)

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Play Concepts
Reservoir requirments?

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Porous and permeable

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Play Concepts
What can the reservoir be affected by?

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Cementation/Compaction

How heterogenous are units? (How dif.?)

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Play Concept
Other Reservoir info?

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Dissolution of limestone can create reservoir
Darcy units used to measure perm.
- 1 Darcy = very good res. Nichols 2009

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Play Concepts
What are the best reservoirs?

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  • Well sorted sandy desserts
  • Shallow seas
  • Oolittic Grainstones
  • Boundstones

(Less important)
- Rivers
- Deltas
- Submarine fans

Presence of mud and cementation decreases porosity

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What does Density data show?

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Gamma rays emitted
Collide with electrons
Scatter
Returning rays counted
High bulk density = lots of electrons = scattering = low return rate

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Play Concepts
What makes a seal effective?

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  1. Low porosity and permeability
  2. Capillary pressure greater than buoyancy pressure
  3. Regionally extensive
  4. Ductile (bends not fracture)
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Play Concepts
What are the best seals?

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  • Fine grained sediments (shales) greater gamma
  • Evaporates (can move) very low gamma
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Play concepts
Structural Traps

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  1. Anticlinal (no fractures?)
  2. Salt dome (future movement?)
  3. Fault trap (Clay smearing? Cataclasis?)
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Play Concept
What is a trap?

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Conc. of HCs

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Play Concept
Stratigraphic traps

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  1. Pinchout
  2. Unconformity
  3. Reef
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What can be done with Neutron Density Data

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-Both used together for accurate evaluation of porosity
-Where they track together = Sst
-Where they are separate = different lithologies or gas
-Where there is gas - density log values are high and neutron log values are low
-Use with Gamma rays for better understanding

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3 key types of explorations

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-buy into existing field
-explore other parts of an identified producing region
-explore new region

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Pros and cons of buying into existing field

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Pros:
-high success rate
-good infrastructure
Cons:
-high buy in costs
-low potential returns

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Pros and cons of exploring others parts of identified region

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Pros:
-good understanding of existing system
-lots of potentially cheaper data
Cons:
-more difficult targets
-lower potential returns

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Pros and cons of exploring new region

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Pros:
-potentially high returns
Cons:
-high risk
-limited existing data therefore expensive

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How can gravity help search for HCs

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-Stage 1 of investigations
-Variations in r alters observed g
-Underlying densities change observed g
-Therefore can identify anomalies
-Can make assumptions about subsurface when comparing to observed measurements
-Oil can produce a gravity low
-Cost effective way of getting regional data
-Used IF substantial density contrasts are expected

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What has an influence on heat flow

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-crustal thinning
-mantle upwelling
-water circulation
-sills and dykes
-salt
-the rocks themselves
-can effect oil window

35
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Features:
-Rootlets upper tidal flats
-Flaser/lenticular bedding
-Ripple cross lamination
-Heterolithic Strat.
-Bi-directional herringbone

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Tidal Estuary - Coastal

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Features:
-Mouth bar deposits - well sorted
-Delta plain = fine grained sand, interbedded with silt
-Beach = wave ripples and medium sand
-Delta front = mudstone interbedded with sand and bioturbation

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Wave dominated delta - Delta

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Features:
-Bi-directional features, herringbone
-Mud drapes during slack water

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Tidal Dominated Coast - Coastal

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Features:
-Inner shelf grain/packstone
-Outer shelf pack/whackstone
-Slope redeposited limestone
-Shelf edge grainstone shoals
-Slump deposits
-Deep water carbonate

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Non-rimmed Carbonate shelf - Shallow Marine Carbonate

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Features:
Boundstone at top
-Forereef slope rudstone and redeposited limestone
-Slump deposits
-Pelagic and Carbonate mudstone turbidites further out

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Carbonate Rimmed Shelf - Shallow Marine Carbonate

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Features:
-Grain Stones shoals in top
-Ooids
-Bioclastic Material
-Mid-ramp redeposited material
-Outer-ramp mud/wackstone

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Carbonate Ramp - Shallow Marine

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Feautures:
-Delta Plain = Fine grained sand and silt with current ripples
-Delta channels = medium sand with current ripples
-Moth bar = massive medium sand
-Delta front = bioturbation, slumping structures, fossils

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River Dominated Delta - Delta

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Features:
-Beach = medium sand
-Estuary mouth = cross bedding, fossils and current ripples
-Central lagoon = bioturbation and limestone
-Bay head delta = cross strat and bioturbation

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Wave dominated Estuary - Coastal

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Features:
-Shoreface = cross strat. and bedded sands
-Reworked sands before tidal currents and storms
-Offshore transition zone = hummocky cross-strat., interbedded with bioturbated mud
-Offshore = bioturbation, mudstone

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Tidal Influenced Shelf succession - Shallow Marine

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Features:
-Cross-strat.
-Mud drapes
-Bi-directional features, herringbone

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Tidal Dominated Delta - Delta

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Features:
-Shoreface = wave ripples and swale
-Offshore transition = thin sheets mud and sst, hummocky cross-strat
-Offshore = bioturbation

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Storm Dominated Shelf - Shallow Marine

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Features:
-Grading up into finer grained deposit
-Matrix or clast support where cobbles and boulders embedded in fine sediment

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Debris Flow - Deep Marine

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Features:
-Rootlets, muds and sands
-Channel fill succession of TxB sands
-Fining upwards
-Lateral accretion surfaces
-Scoured channel base
-Finer grain sizes than a Braider River

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Meandering River - Fluvial

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Features:
-Mix of sand, gravel, and mud
-Inner fan = thick conglomerate and sst turbidites
-Thin levee deposits
-Mid fan = coarsening up succession of sandy turbidites
-Distal fan = fine grained turbidites

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Submarine Fans - Deep Marine

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Features:
-Rootlets
-Fine sand and muds
-Trough cross bedding in channels, fining up
-Coarsest sediments lower flat laminated
-Scoured channel base

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Braided River - Fluvial

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Features:
-Depositional couplets (alternating fine and course material)
-Antidunes upstream
-Clast imbrication
-Poorly sorted silt and clay

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Alluvial Sheetflood deposit - Alluvial

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Features:
-Disc structures
-Laminated and cross-bedded sand
-Pebbly and water escape structures
-Reverse grading at bottom of sequence

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Lowe Sequence Turbidite Flow - Deep marine

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Features:
-Matrix supported
-Crude clast imbrication of bigger clasts
-Poorly sorted

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Debris Flow - Alluvial

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Features:
-Muds and wave rippled sands
-Deeper laminated dark shales
-Thin turbiditic sands

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Lacustrine Deposit - Lacustrine

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Features:
-Cross laminated sands and ripples
-Parallel laminated sands
-Massive sands and granules rapidly deposited under upper flow regime
-Scoured erosional base

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Bouma Sequence Turbidite Flow - Deep Marine

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What is the control on marine sedimentation?

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Base level (sea level)

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What is progradation (normal)

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S>A
Level, seaward

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What is progradation (forced regression)

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S>A where sea level lower
Down, seaward

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What is retrogradation

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A>S where sea level rises
Up, Landward

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What is aggradation

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A=S where sea level rises
Up, static

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What is Sequence Stratigraphy

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“study of stratal stacking patterns and changes thereof in a time framework” (Catuneanu et al. 2009)

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What is a Sequence Boundary (SB)

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-The surface in which the first signs of erosion occur due to sea level fall
-From aggradation to progradation (forced)

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Highstand System Tract (HST)

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-Sea level rising
-Steep curve steadying out
Therefore aggradation (where steep), then progradation (where levels out)

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Falling Stage System Tract (FSST)

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-Fluvial systems incise and transport sediment basinwards
-Downward shift in facies (foreshore lies on offshore transition with SB between)

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Lowstand System Tract (LST)

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-Relative sea level at min
-Sea level begins to rise (limited) - therefore Accom.
-Progradational to Aggradational
-Onlapping, clinoforms that thicken updip

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Transgressive Surface (TS)

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-A>S (where Supply is constant)
-Sedimentation migrates landward
-TS marks sea level rise

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Transgressive System Tract (TST)

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-Sea level rise increases
-A>S (supply is constant)
-Retrogradational
-Onlap, clinoforms thicken landward

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Maximum Flooding Surface (MFS)

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-Hiatus in deposition occurs
-Surface above which is MFS
-The most landward region of the marine realm

66
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Allogenic

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Basin wide
World Wide

67
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Autogenic

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within system

68
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Two types of Geothermal systems

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-High temp >180C
-Low temp <100C

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Two Shallow Geothermal Energy Soruces

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-Heat pumps - Open loop and closed loops. Open is heat exchange with groundwater. Closed is heat exchange from installed boreholes. Local Scale Heating
-Mine water systems - Old mines, storage and pathways for water, heated water extracted, boreholes used. e.g. Heerleen, Netherlands. Midland Valley, Scotland (Glasgow. Adams et al. 2009)

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Geothermal Energy facts

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-Volcanic activity
-Water pumped to hot granites
-Requires permeability (fractures)
-Can be natural fractures or fracking

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Three components to Geothermal Energy

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Heat, Water, Permiability

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Geothermal Potential UK

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-26C/Km gradient
-3000m depth would be 88C
-Post carboniferous sed basins best
Eden Project - hot granite under Cornwall

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Where is hydrogen found

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Water, HCs (most effective), organic matter

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What is hydrogen used for

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burned as combustible fuel, or fuel cells

75
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Hydrogen Storage

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-reservoir
-cap (ductile and high capillary pA)
-Trap structure
-Salt caverns can be used
-seal needs to be better quality than for HCs as higher buoyancy pA/>leak ability

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Where is CO2 critical at?

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31C and 7.38MPa

77
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What is needed for CCS

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Reservoir, Seal, Trap

78
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What infrastructure is in place after HCs

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Rigs, Wells, Pipelines

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UK CCS example

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Teeside, South Wales, Grangemouth, Acorn Project in North Sea

80
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Requirements for Nuclear Waste Storage

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Space, no migration, stable groundwater, no protected areas, wont be affected by future climates

81
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Three types of Nuclear Storage Rock Types

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-Salt as impermeable
-Low strength - low permeability clays and mudstone
-High strength - low permeability granites/slates

82
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Other nuclear storage requirements

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Depth of 200-1000m
Thickness of 10s of metres
Several kms wide

Geology (6 decks)

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