EP3 - Aquifer-Geometry and -characteristics
Goals
Storage and pool characteristics of important aquifers (Rotliegend, Buntsandstein, Keuper-Sandstein) are analyzed. In a 3D model of the Thuringian Basin's permo-mesozoic stratigraphy, the storage characteristics of these aquiferes are scaled-up and their spatial allocation predicted. In several aquifer categories, proportions of reactive mineral surfaces are statistically counted. These storage capacity data of aquifers form the basis for 3D-fluid dynamic- and 3D-mass transfer-modelling. Aquifer parameters and storage characteristics are combined with EP2 results and later on validated with hydro-dynamic EP5-data.
On top, the geological framework for fluid flow as well as the interaction between fluids and the underground solid matters will be captured. Step by step land-subsidence and -uplift of the Thuringian Basin will be reconstructed in order to be able to extrapolate storage capacities of aquifers. The devolution of temperature and the paleo-heat flow rate are taken from clay mineralogy, organic data and Thermochronology. These information are essential to inter- and extrapolate storage capacities of selected aquiferes spatially.
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gaupp - team leader
Dr. Michaela Aehnelt - Post Doc
