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Mud Pots and Mud Pools
Depressions filled with hot bubbling mud commonly associated with steaming ground. The mud is mostly made up of clay minerals which form as an alteration product and interaction between acidic condensed steam and rock-forming minerals.
Geothermal Glossary
Word of the Week – Liquid-Dominated Reservoir
Liquid-Dominated Reservoir Typical of the large proportion of conventional geothermal resources in which wells are self-flowing or pumped depending on reservoir temperature. Self-flowing wells produce a mixture of steam and hot water from reservoirs that are close to...
Word of the Week – Lost Circulation
Lost Circulation Refers to the loss or escape of drilling fluid into permeable zones made up of fractured or porous rock encountered during drilling.
Word of the Week – Mafic
Mafic A geological term referring to igneous rocks that are equivalent to basalt and diorite in composition.