What is it about?
The multidisciplinary (sedimentological, structural, geophysical, geochemical) study of a 100 m long and 5 m high mound of travertine where until the seventies of the XX century the hot (63°-87°C) waters were rising to the surface has shed lights on the hydrothermal system.
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Why is it important?
The importance of this study is the integration of several disciplines
Perspectives
For the first time the structural perspective has permitted to explain the Euganean geothermal system (the most important of the Northern Italy) in the frame of dilational accommodation zones between transtensional fault segments. The study has permitted to draw the geometrical constraints that are the input for performing numerical models and evaluating the heat flow of the underlying energy reservoir.
Dario Zampieri
Universita degli Studi di Padova
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This page is a summary of: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding carbonate deposition under tectonically controlled hydrothermal circulation: A case study from a recent travertine mound in the Euganean hydrothermal system, northern Italy, Sedimentology, October 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12069.
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