3D geological modelling in Bavaria state-of-the-art at a State Geological Survey

The 3D conductive thermal field of the North Alpine Foreland Basin: influence of the deep structure and the adjacent European Alps

“…While the relevance of geothermal energy production in the European Molasse Basin has increased steadily during the past decades (Roeder and Bachmann 1996;Kempf et al 1999;Berge and Veal 2005;Jodocy and Stober 2009;Pamer and Diepolder 2010;Böhm et al 2011;Reischenbacher and Sachsenhofer 2011;Birner et al 2012;Cacace et al 2013;GeoMol Team 2015) its significance as a provider of fossil fuels has decreased (Pasternak 2015). Today, the Tertiary aquifers in the European Molasse Basin and the underlying Mesozoic units are intensively used for shallow as well as for deep geothermal energy production and contribute to the provision of so-called "green energy".…”

The origin of deep geothermal anomalies in the German Molasse Basin: results from 3D numerical models of coupled fluid flow and heat transport

“…In the latter, large temperature differences within a few kilometres of lateral distance (Agemar et al 2012) can be observed, so-called positive and negative thermal anomalies. Even though the knowledge about the basin has advanced in response to studies of the industry and the scientific community over the last decades (Berge and Birner et al 2012;Böhm et al 2011;Cacace et al 2013;GeoMol Team 2015;Jodocy and Stober 2009;Kempf et al 1999;Reischenbacher and Sachsenhofer 2011;Roeder and Bachmann 1996;Pamer and Diepolder 2010), the origin of this temperature pattern and the fluid flow directions in the basin are still not fully understood.…”

Transnational 3D modeling, geopotential evaluation and active fault assessment in the Alpine Foreland Basins – the project GeoMol

“…Even though several 3D geological models have been built over the last years (e.g. Pamer & Diepolder, 2010), the merger of existing 3D geological models by just filling the gaps in between is not feasible: they are made for different purposes and address distinct issues, and are based on different primary data originating from multiple sources with various dates of origin. Preparing coherent 3D information, thus, requires harmonization from the very beginning of the model building process.…”