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The Analysis of Geothermal Gradient at Icheon Hot Spa Area  

Lee, Chol-Woo (Groundwater & Geothermal Resources Div., Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Moon, Sang-Ho (Groundwater & Geothermal Resources Div., Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.18, no.2, 2008 , pp. 185-190 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nine wells have been developed for uses of thermal waters at the Icheon hot spa area. Drilling depths of those hot spring wells range from 166 to 294 m and their piezometric heads are located at about 50 m below the surface. Using the differences between the surface and bottom temperatures within all boreholes, we can simply estimate geothermal gradient in this area. Thus, we obtained the highest, lowest and average gradient values as $64^{\circ}C/km$ from SB-2 well, $45^{\circ}C/km$ from SB-1 well and approximately $54.28^{\circ}C/km$, respectively. However, observing the MRD-2 well additionally drilled into the depth of 996 m, we found out that this study area has widely experienced the temperature disturbance due to thermal groundwater penetration through the fracture systems within the depth of 720 m. Unlikely this phenomenon, we can conclude that the groundwater flow below the depth of 720 m does not exist. Therefore, using only those temperature data below the 720 m depth, we can estimate reasonable geo-thermal gradient values as $33^{\circ}C/km$ in this study area. Pumping test shows that outflowing temperature is $36^{\circ}C$ corresponding to the temperature logging data at 720 m depth.
Keywords
Icheon hot spa area; geothermal gradient; bottom temperature; groundwater;
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