Evaluation of the geothermal resource in the area of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Factors indicating a potential geothermal resource near Albuquerque are: (1) nearby volcanoes active as recently as 120,000 years ago, (2) gravity interpretation indicating a potential reservoir averaging 1.5 km thickness, (3) high heat flow near the city, (4) warm waters (>30/sup 0/C) in municipal wells, (5) recent seismicity indicating active faulting, thereby, allowing the possibility of deep hydrothermal circulation, (6) high shallow ( 100/sup 0/C/km) discovered in our drillholes, (7) deeper ( 50/sup 0/C) geothermal resource exists west of Albuquerque at less than 1 km depth.« less