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Tester, J. W., Anderson, B., Batchelor, A., Blackwell, D., DiPippo, R., Drake, E., Garnish, J., Livesay, B., Moore, M.C., Nichols, K., Petty, S., Toksoz, N., Veatch, R., Augustine, C., Baria, R., Murphy, E., Negraru, P., Richards, M. 2006. The future of geothermal energy: Impact of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st century. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DOE Contract DE-AC07-05ID14517 Final Report, 374 p. |
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Heat Flow Patterns of the North American Continent : A Discussion of the DNAG Geothermal Map of North America, by David Blackwell, John Steele and Larry Carter. (115kb doc) |
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Shallow Thermal Conditions in the Central and Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone by Jason McKenna and David Blackwell. (1090kb pdf) |
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Heat Sources in Subduction Zones: Implications for Slab Seismicity and Arc Volcanism by Jason McKenna and David Blackwell. (244kb pdf) |
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Thermal Regime of a Large Mid-continent Oil Field (El Dorado, Kansas) from High-Resolution Temperature Logs, by Jason McKenna. (557 kb doc) |
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Geothermal electric power supply possible from Gulf Coast, Midcontinent oil field waters, by Jason McKenna, David Blackwell, Christopher Moyes, and P. Dee Patterson, Oil & Gas Journal, Sept. 5, 2005 p. 34-40. (12 mb pdf) (Correction: Fig 5 units for Texas disposal rates is gpm, not kgpm.) |
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Continental Heat Flow, by Roy, R.F., D.D. Blackwell and E.R. Decker, in The Nature of the Solid Earth, ed. E.C. Robertson, , chapter 19, p. 506-544, McGraw Hill, New York, 1972 (3996kb pdf) |
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Thermal Structure of the Continental Crust, by David D. Blackwell in The Structure and Physical Properties of the Earth's Crust, Geophys. Mono. Ser. 14, ed. J.G. Heacock, 169-184, 1971. (606kb pdf) |
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Tectonic implications of the heat flow of the western Snake River Plain, Charles Brott, David D. Blackwell, and John C. Mitchell, GSA Bulletin, v. 89, 1697-1707, 1978 (1833kb pdf) |
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Heat Flow in the Northern Basin and Range Province, by David D. Blackwell. (204kb pdf) |
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Numerical Modeling of Transient Basin and Range Extensional Geothermal Systems, by McKenna, J.R., and D.D. Blackwell, in Geothermics, 33, 457-476, 2004. (845kb pdf) |
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SMU Geothermal Lab Heat Flow and Western Geothermal Data Bases References (109kb doc) |
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Articles and References about Temperature Logging |

Bulletin Papers (reprints with approval from the GRC, 2004)
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, A Different View: Geothermal resources in the Basin and Range, Geothermal Bulletin, v. 31, no. 2, 67-68, 2002. pdf (1.8 mb) or html
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, The Forgotten Ones: Geothermal roads less traveled in Nevada, Geothermal Bulletin, v. 31, no. 2, 69-75, 2002. pdf (6.5 mb) or html
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, The Nevada Story- turning a loss into a gain, Geothermal Resources Bulletin, v. 31, no. 3, 107-110, 2002. pdf (1 mb) or html (related to heat loss)
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, A Difficult Search, Why Basin and Range systems are hard to find, Geothermal Bulletin, v. 31, no. 4, 143-146, 2002. pdf (3.7 mb) or html
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, Montana, waiting to be discovered, Geothermal Resources Bulletin, v. 32, no. 1, 35-37, 2003. pdf (2.7 mb) or html
Richards, Maria and David Blackwell, The Heat is On, SMU 2002 Geothermal Resources Potential Map, Geothermal Resources Bulletin, v. 32, no. 3, 117-119, 2003. pdf (3.3 mb) or html