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Coso Volcanic Field

Coso Volcanic Field

Coso Volcanic Field

The Coso volcanic field is located about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Bakersfield, California, mainly within the boundary of the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake. It covers approximately 400 square kilometers (roughly 150 square miles) and is home to one of the largest producers of geothermal power in the U.S., with an output sufficient to supply the needs of 270,000 homes.

A steam plume rises from a tube in a sandy patch of desert. Several trucks are parked around it and two F18 jets fly overhead
Coso Volcanic Field

Coso Volcanic Field

Coso Volcanic Field

The Coso volcanic field is located about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Bakersfield, California, mainly within the boundary of the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake. It covers approximately 400 square kilometers (roughly 150 square miles) and is home to one of the largest producers of geothermal power in the U.S., with an output sufficient to supply the needs of 270,000 homes.

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Long-term trends in microseismicity during operational shut-ins at the Coso Geothermal Field, California

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Tiny zircon crystals tell a big eruption story in the Coso Volcanic Field

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Seismicity zoning at Coso geothermal field and stress changes from fluid production and migration

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Satellite observations of surface deformation at the Coso Geothermal Field, California

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Seismic monitoring at Coso volcanic field

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Micro-seismicity within the Coso Geothermal field, California, from 1996-2012

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Geology and History of Coso Volcanic Field

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Micro-seismicity and seismic moment release within the Coso Geothermal Field, California

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Hazards Summary for Coso Volcanic Field

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The Coso geothermal area: A laboratory for advanced MEQ studies for geothermal monitoring

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Analysis and interpretation of stress indicators in deviated wells of the Coso Geothermal Field

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Seismicity rate change at the Coso Geothermal Field following the July 2019 Ridgecrest M7.1 earthquake

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Compartmentalization of the Coso East Flank geothermal field imaged by 3-D full-tensor MT inversion

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Physical properties of two core samples from Well 34-9RD2 at the Coso geothermal field, California

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Geologic setting of the West Flank, a FORGE site adjacent to the Coso geothermal field

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Attenuation and source properties at the Coso Geothermal area, California

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Differentiating induced and natural seismicity using space-time-magnitude statistics applied to the Coso Geothermal field

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A time-lapse gravity survey of the Coso geothermal field, China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, California

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Using micro-seismicity and seismic velocities to map subsurface geologic and hydrologic structure within the Coso geothermal field, California

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Natural or Induced: Identifying Natural and Induced Swarms from Pre-production and Co-production Microseismic Catalogs at the Coso Geothermal Field

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A photograph of several rocky volcanic hills shaped like upside-down flans. The hills and the landscape around them are dotted with sagebrush and dry grasses, revealing the underlying desert soil and rock. A bright blue sky overhead is streaked with clouds. USGS photo by Seth Burgess

Lava domes in the Coso Volcanic Field
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Stress, fracture, and fluid-flow analysis using acoustic and electrical image logs in hot fractured granites of the Coso geothermal field, California, U.S.A.

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The Coso EGS project - Recent developments

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The Coso EGS project - Recent developments

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Distribution of Quaternary rhyolite domes of the Coso Range, California: implications for extent of the geothermal anomaly.

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Chemical and isotopic compositions of gases from volcanic and geothermal areas in California

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Accessory mineral U–Th–Pb ages and 40Ar/39Ar eruption chronology, and their bearing on rhyolitic magma evolution in the Pleistocene Coso volcanic field, California

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Principal facts for gravity observations in the Coso Hot Springs area, California

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Steady state deformation of the Coso Range, east central California, inferred from satellite radar interferometry

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