Re: Hot Rock question from newbie

In article <aQmdh.101$Xo6.32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Clive Douglas wrote:
How deep (on average) below the UK would you find rock in the 200 - 300
degree C temperature range ???

We're pushing 200C in quite routine oil wells in the central North
Sea. 4-7km or thereabouts. (You did give a 50% range in temperature above
surface temperature ; expect a similar precision in reply.)

Also how thick is the tectonic plate that the UK sits on.

BIRPS (something like British Institutions (for) Reflection
Profiling Seismology) is your friend. Google, but you'll find that in
some places it's 40-odd km, and a couple of km away it's 30-odd km.
That's across the Great Glen (Glen Mhor) Fault, BTW.

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Aidan Karley, FGS,
Aberdeen, Scotland
A light wave is more like a crime wave than a water wave.

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