Opportunities for geothermal energy: New method reveals past underground temperatures
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
Rocks store information about the temperatures that they have experienced. Wageningen University researchers and international colleagues are the first to develop a method that reveals low-temperature information (from 35 °C and higher) on a relatively short timescale of thousands of years. The new method might find application in locating geothermal reservoirs and in maintaining underground tunnels.