Interpreting muon radiographic data in a fault zone: possible application to geothermal reservoir detection and monitoring-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Interpreting muon radiographic data in a fault zone: possible application to geothermal reservoir detection and monitoring

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Tanaka H. K. M.,Muraoka H.

Abstract

Abstract. Rainfall-triggered fluid flow in a mechanical fracture zone associated with a seismic fault has been estimated (Tanaka et al., 2011) using muon radiography by measuring the water position over time in response to rainfall events. In this report, the data taken by Tanaka et al. (2011) are reanalyzed to estimate the porosity distribution as a function of a distance from the fault gauge. The result shows a similar pattern of the porosity distribution as measured by borehole sampling at Nojima fault. There is a low porosity shear zone axis surrounded by porous damaged-areas with density increasing with the distance from the fault gauge. The dynamic muon radiography (Tanaka et al., 2011) provides a new method to delineate both the recharge and discharge zones along the fault segment, an entire hydrothermal circulation system. This might dramatically raise the success rate for drilling of geothermal exploration wells and it might open a new horizon in the geothermal exploration and monitoring.

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Copernicus GmbH

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https://gi.copernicus.org/preprints/2/875/2012/gid-2-875-2012.pdf

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