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ANALYSIS OF AEROMAGNETIC DATA FOR LOCATING POTENTIAL GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES IN NORTHERN WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT

Research Abstract

Geothermal resources in Egypt are useful as a promising source of renewable energy. Little attempts have been carried out to expansively investigate the geothermal potentiality in the Western Desert. The present study is focused on the investigation of geothermal resources in the Northern Western Desert. To achieve this objective, the available aeromagnetic data is firstly reduced to the pole (RTP), then filtered using tilt derivative (TDR) and Butterworth low and high pass methods. The major trends of the different predominant detected local and regional lineaments (probably basement structures) have been determined and correlated with surface structures. To delineate the basement depth configuration, power spectral analysis of aeromagnetic data, as well as constructing 2D modeling (verified by drilled wells data) were applied. The results have been used to estimate the Curie point depth (CPD), geothermal 

Research Authors
GM Abdelaleem, GZ Abdelaal, AA Omran, AA Abdel-Halim, HS Mohamed
Research Date
Research Department
Research Journal
Russian Geology and Geophysics
Research Year
2025