Iceland:

World’s First Magma-enhanced Geothermal System Created in Iceland (UCR Today)

GRC member Wilfred Elders is editor of this month’s issue of Geothermics, dedicated to results from Icelandic Deep Drilling Project

In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten rock) at only 2100 meters depth, with a temperature of 900-1000 C. The borehole, IDDP-1, was the first in a series of wells being drilled by the IDDP in Iceland in the search for high-temperature geothermal resources.

The January 2014 issue of the international journal Geothermics is dedicated to scientific and engineering results arising from that unusual occurrence. This issue is edited by GRC member Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, California, who also co-authored three of the research papers in the special issue with Icelandic colleagues.

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