World's first magma-enhanced geothermal system created in Iceland
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:02
in Earth & Climate
In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project, unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten rock) at only 2,100 meters depth, with a temperature of 900-1,000 C.