Hydrogeothermal Conditions in Ãire - Geological Survey of Ireland

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- 19 -nothing can be inferred as to the source of the heat driving this thermalcirculation of warmed groundwater.IVACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND REFERENCESThe thanks of the authors are due to Dr. C.E. Williams who hasencouraged and facilitated this investigation, and to colleagues in theGeological Survey and outside who have supplied information on manyaspects of the wor~ not least to the staff of the State Laboratory. Inthe course of preparing the "Geothermal Energy Potential of Ireland" projectthe authors have had very fruitful discussions with their colleaguesProfessors Peter Br~ck of Cork, Professor Andrew Brock of Galway, as wellas Messers Eamon Kinsella and Keith Robinson of the National Board forScience and Technology. And as the paper was being finalized, there wasa useful visit to several of the springs in the company of Drs. K. Louwrier,R. Haenel and W.M. Edmunds. The practical field discussions will facilitatethe more efficient collection of further data and the application offindings to the possible development of a valuable energy resource of thecountry.The debt of the authors to other workers is acknowledged by thefollowing list of references.REFERENCESALDWELL, C.R. and BURDON, D.J., (1979) "Groundwater Investigations in Eire"Proc. 'Hydrology in Ireland' meeting May 1979; IHPNat. Committee.BROCK, A. (1979) "Geothermal Energy in Ireland" Internal Report, Nat. BoardSci. and Tech., Dublin, 68p." BRUCK, P.M. (1971) "The Lower Carboniferous Rocks of the Naas District,Co. Kildare" Bull. Geol. Survey Ireland, Vol. I, pp. 211-221.BURDON, D.J. (1978) "Infiltration Conditions of Major Sandstone Aquiferaround Ghat, Libya" Sec. Sym. on Geology of Libya, Tripoli;(in press) •and CULLEN, K. (1980) "Hydrochemistry of Caradocian Volcanicsin S.E. Ireland and the Effects of Preclpitation Composition onthe Groundwater Chemistry". Fourth Internat. Symp. on Groundwater,Catania, Feb. 1980.BYRNE, B., DOWNING, D. and ROMER, D. (1971) "Some Aspects of the Genesisof the Lead-Zinc Orebody at Navan" Irish Geological Assoc.,Galway meeting on "Genesis of Base Metal Deposits in Ireland".C.E.C. (1977) "First Seminar on Geothermal Energy" Brussels, 2 Vols., pp. 732C.E.C. (1980) "Second Seminar on Geothermal Energy", Strasbourg.CERMAK, V. and RYBACH, L. (1979) "Terrestial Heat Flow in Europe"Springer-Verlag.
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